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Issue 105 Fall 2008
“What is it like to make a painting?” queries writer Francine Prose. An opaque question laid bare by painter Thomas Nozkowski, who lets us see the machinations of the mystery that can’t be solved.
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On the crest of the new British invasion, Sam Taylor-Wood’s surprising photographs and films catch their subjects in isolated moments, dramas, arguments. Her work is reminiscent of early Warhol, with an operatic style all her own.
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American poet Yusef Komunyakaa and Irish poet Paul Muldoon talk of T.S. Eliot and racism, poetry and music, Native Americans and the self—as a writer and a reader—in a culture that is as global as it is specific.
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Inept con-men, petty smuggler and crippled children people Mark Richard’s stories in his book, Charity. This writer slaps the senses, building worlds both mythical and familiar. J.D. Dolan tracks the life and times of the author.
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Geoffrey O’Brien and Luc Sante unearth the subtext that was Times Square in the ‘60s, “the round-the-clock festival of junk culture and lyrical sleaze.”
>>>According to Alexander Nehamas there is an art to living—it’s found in television, Montaigne and Nietzsche. Fellow philosopher David Carrier challenges Nehamas to explain what he means by the “philosophical life” and how writing fits into it.
>>>Ian McKellen’s legendary performances have braced audiences for several decades. En route to L.A. to tackle Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Sir Ian McKellen, actor and activist, has a drink with playwright Scott Mendelsohn.
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