No need to explain the rules here—you’ve all played tag. So… Deb Gorlin, you’re it!! What is the working title of your book?Relative Distance Where did the idea come from for the book?My first book, Bodily Course, was frantic about bodies, incarnating, embodying, deploying language as a form of transubstantiation. I was like . . .
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Adélia & yours truly, Ouro Prieto, Brazil. August, 2011. I’ve been tagged! Thank you to fellow Tupelonian Karen An-hwei Lee for inviting me to participate in this bloggy Next Big Thing thing, 10 interview questions about what’s doing in my writing life. If you’ve not read Karen’s ingenious, sensual, and seriously playful . . .
Read MoreA recent column by Slavoj Žižek on the film Zero Dark Thirty is preceded by a statement of fact and an essential question: “Many have pointed out that Kathryn Bigelow’s film endorses torture. But why has such a film been made now?” I think I can answer that. On January 10, the Oscar nominations were announced, . . .
Read MoreIt’s not often (enough) that one of our own—or any poet at all—is given a nationally televised voice, even on that thin slice of broadcasting bandwidth still called “public.” And yet, the weekend prior to Obama’s second inauguration, MR contributing editor Martín Espada was invited onto Moyers & Company. For the next half . . .
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We’re thrilled to hear how folks are liking Rachel B. Glaser’s portrait of James Tate on MR’s current cover. So we thought you might like to see some of her paintings of basketball players…. You can see more of Rachel’s NBA paintings here: nbapaintings.blogspot.com Glaser is also the author of the story . . .
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The 2013 Winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Ross Gay, for his poem “Ode to Sleeping in My Clothes,” published in Volume 53, Issue 1. A Cave Canem Fellow, Ross Gay is author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down, the title poem of which enacts this poet’s excruciating extremes of terror and . . .
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A little hard to believe, but it’s already been over three years since I joined the MR team. Whatever I’ve done right during that time, of course, I owe to my colleagues, and I certainly learned more from our editor emeritus, Jules Chametzky, than anyone else. This magazine has a grand history and sets . . .
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Unlike Michael Moore, my dad didn’t work for GM, and my uncle wasn’t a founding member of the UAW. And I grew up in Lansing, not Flint—another car town, but also the state capital. Flint is far enough away that our sports teams didn’t even play each other. By the time Roger & . . .
Read MoreMen do not always recognize the dangersthat beasts can sense —Nosferatu In responding to his recent Facebook post, various detractors have made Franz Wright out as a monster. I don’t entirely disagree with this characterization; I just don’t think it’s such a negative thing. Monstrous behavior sometimes . . .
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Three weeks ago, Enver Hadžiomerspahić arrived at the Ars Aevi Bridge on Sarajevo’s Miljacka River, followed by a small army of reporters; he was there to mark his resignation as the director of Ars Aevi, the most impressive collection of contemporary art in the Balkans. Instead of giving a speech, Hadžiomerspahić took . . .
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