(Love In The City of Grudges, Will Nixon, Foothills Publishing, 96pp, hand-stitched, $16) All poetry and fiction is biographical. Its universality comes from the writer’s painful walk up and down the world in others’ shoes, however ill-fitting and improbable. The rare man takes a stroll in high heels, the rare woman dons a man’s prickly [...]
Read More...Some paintings are like museums—there is so much going on that the mind is unable to acquire the whole. This is the case with two superb 15th Century Florentine panel paintings at The Frick Collection in New York City. One of the beauties of The Frick is that, for all its elegance, it is just [...]
Read More...Bipolar America manufactures polarities better than it makes anything else, including sense. Polarities and contradictions: hawk, dove, global cop, nativist. Convention posits these polarities in red states and blue states. But I’d like to suggest an alternative, more surreal geography, for we are surely the quintessentially surreal country. I think we Americans live either in [...]
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