As my second wave feminist companion said as we left the theater, “That was hilarious. And I am SO ANGRY.”
Review
Book Review: “These Fevered Days” — Exploring an Enigma
From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
Concert Review: Skylark Vocal Ensemble — Sublime Storytime
Storytelling is big business in concert halls these days, and as a yarn spinner Sarah Walker is in a class her own.
Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
Book Review: “Weather” — Despite All the Ruckus
There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.
Book Review: “Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound” — Poetry of Common Cause
Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.
Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic
Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.
Visual Arts Review: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society
Go feast your eyes.
Theater Review: “Manahatta” — Breaking the American Myths
The only way forward, to go beyond American myths of innocence, is to confront the enduring crimes of the past.
Film Review: “After We Leave” — No Place Like Home
I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.