Ultimately, it feels as if it’s the critic, in this case, not the movie or “society,” who’s trying to reduce the girl and the father to single, limited archetypes… It feels, even, for all practical purposes, as if it’s the…
On Guard-Changing: 2013
Goodbye to Issue 51 staff, hello Issue 52 staff.
Interview with Translator Robert Chandler
If a joke is to survive the journey into another language, if it is to hit the mark even when its cultural context can no longer be taken for granted, its point may need to be adjusted or somehow re-sharpened.
Review: Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
by Amy Feltman All the elements of this novel that could usher in clichés instead somersault through our expectations.
Review: The Potty Mouth at the Table by Laurie Notaro
by Jaime R. Herndon Life stories with humor interspersed in them, not stories of hobos or lists of things you don’t want to hear in a drugstore line that aren’t really funny.
Review: La Boutique Obscure by Georges Perec
by Javier Fuentes We have come to know him as an author who thrives on constraint; here we are granted access to Perec in his freest incarnation.
Review: The Ethical Butcher by Berlin Reed
by Michael Gibney Gray matter in hand, Berlin Reed makes quick work of showing us that he is not just another enthusiastic hobbyist—no, he’s elbows-deep in a craft that is obviously not for the lily-livered.
2013 Contest Winners Announced
The staff of Issue 51 is proud to announce our 2013 contest winners.
Review: Marcel Proust and Swann’s Way Exhibit
by Beth Livermore To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, curator Antoine Campagnon borrowed from the Biblioteque Nationale de France a selection of the author’s notebooks, manuscripts, and galley proofs to “provide unique insight into Proust’s creative process and…
Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company
by Mary Mann A lot of modern dance is intentionally boring. It is willfully boring because we modern people need it to be. We have no time for boredom otherwise.
Review: Harlem by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Alice Attie
by Meghan Flaherty The identities of the message-leavers and the intended recipients remain a mystery. Harlem is merely trying to provide a record. To catalogue certain of these bits of text as emblematic of a neighborhood perilously in flux. To…
John Nieves Wins Elixir Press Poetry Award
Issue 50 contributor John Nieves’s first book, Curio, has won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. “Elegy on an Epigraph” is part of the manuscript. It will be published in early 2014.