IN THE OPENING scenes of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), a slender, dark-haired woman in Victorian dress leaps into a large body of water to end her life. Against her will, she is rescued and reanimated. This heroine, we learn, is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone): a despairing wife turned Bride of Frankenstein, whose body has […]
The artist Suzanne Bocanegra has many stories to tell, and not just her own: her installations, sculptural assemblages, and performance pieces often unpack other artists’ work (she once sewed tiny cotton replicas of all the aprons from Jean-François Millet’s peasant paintings) or feature appearances by fellow-creators. She’s particularly interested in women working—and women in trouble. […]
Guest Columnist Some books have to be written all alone on your couch in the middle of the night so no one sees you fall apart while you write. And some you have to draft in a coffee shop in broad daylight so your material, mined from trauma, doesn’t kill you without witnesses present. In […]
