Category: Arts

The Decomposition Position

Ruins’ dangerous beauty.

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Celebrity and Anonymity

On February sixteenth, at author and professor Joyce Carol Oates’ reading in McCormick Hall, the front rows of the auditorium are filled with a veritable Who’s Who of campus luminaries.

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i miss the scent of you, sugar on my tongue

i miss the scent of you sugar on my tongue

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Hauntings (Woman, Boy, Body)

Poetry.

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Remembering Charlie Chan

“I found myself at the opening night of Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery almost by chance.”

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Dr. Webster’s Case File on Minna Ipsen

She had no plans to grow old, and she had no desire to feel her hips hurt (1). Minna was sitting by her grandmother’s bedside in Munroe Hospital when the woman called out in pain. Even though it has been nine years since her grandmother’s death, at night when Minna tries to fall asleep those screams still play like a broken record in her ears.

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Masks and Motherhood: Reflections on Simon Stone’s Medea

A consideration of a modern reimagining of an ancient play

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The Virtue of Ambiguity

A Review of the Film: Parasite

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Self portrait

Frank O’Hara writes a poem about why he’s not a painter, and in it he writes a poem called “Oranges” with no orange. So I’ll write a self portrait without myself. I’ll write instead about what I like: the opera, … Read More

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A Translation by Elizabeth Abernethy

JESUS Either someone plays Mahomet or I quit! MOSES But you’re not taking into account the risks that that imports. If you make an actor incarnate Mahomet you’ll have fifteen thousand fatwahs on your back. JESUS When I do theatre, … Read More

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