Essays

A Note from the Editor

All things come to their end.

Trans-Parency: An Appreciation of Mary Meriam

An appreciation of the True Countess of the Enchanted Forest Of Flatbroke.

Borderwork: Katarina Zdjelar’s Käthe Kollwitz

It accumulates, repeats, obsesses, this interest in Kollwitz’s work, always back to the physical shock of her art.

Why the Irish Feel the Way They Feel About Irish

The idea that the Irish language is essential to Irish identity has a long and surprising history.

Weegee: Art, Craft, Murder, and the Legacy of Film Noir

For Weegee, creating sublime visual art and taking a useable journalistic photograph blended seamlessly into one another.

Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic

What a late addition to the epic tells us about what it meant to be human in the ancient world.

Johnny and I

Who the hell in suburban New York had ever heard of Anniston, Alabama? I had.

Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art (an Excerpt)

Marina Tsvetaeva and Natalia Goncharova are two of the strongest voices emerging from the Russian cultural tradition of the 20th century.

A Home at the End

On the liminal thresholds that echo our long pilgrimages and our returns.

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