Search Results: self objectification
Reading Little Kisses is reassuring — and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.
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What sets “Cold Nights of Childhood “wonderfully apart from today’s autofiction genre is the narrator’s absolute lack of self-pity. There is no blame-game, and no lugubrious victimhood.
Read MoreArtist Michael Lewy’s comprehensive, clever and surprisingly humorous take on an imaginary experimental settlement explores the ramifications of having human potential promptly assessed and harnessed for work, and work alone.
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I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.
Read MoreA perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.
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My reviewing this movie is like Proust reviewing a tea-dipped madeleine, but I think even old Marcel could spot when bits of the sponge cake were stale or too soggy.
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This revival of 1776 tries to strike a culture wars balance, celebrating the country’s commitment to independence while also here and there skewering the idealized images and blatant hypocrisies of America’s patriarchal founders.
Read MoreAmong other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger