A decade ago, thinking about a pair of independent films more than a generation apart—Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” (1978) and Alex Ross Perry’s “The Color Wheel” (2011)— I was struck by how much their delicate blends of comedy and drama owed to the directors’ senses of distance, their discerning choices about how far from the actors […]
Following months of escalating protests over its response to Israel’s war on Gaza, and just four days on from the cancellation of its annual literary awards , embattled free expression organization PEN America has now also announced the cancelation of its World Voices Festival. According to a press release published on the organization’s website in […]
Even before the release of Beyoncé’s Billboard 200-topping album Cowboy Carter , Ryan Beatty was having a banner 2024. His name is in the liner notes to Bleachers’ self-titled fourth album as a co-writer, and he’ll open for Noah Kahan this summer and Maggie Rogers in the fall — all in support of his own […]
The following is a story from Uche Okonkwo’s collection A Kind of Madness . Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 , and Lagos Noir . She is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, a Steinbeck […]
