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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Novelist Bradford Morrow unlocks the secrets of Gregory Crewdson’s gothic photographs, ritualistic dioramas that recall Duchamp, Emerson and the American suburbs.
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Artist Lorna Simpson has turned from photography to film, creating three-dimensional installations on voyeurism, betrayal and desire.
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Writers Allan Gurganus and Donald Antrim fax and phone this raucous conversation on sex, love and laughter during the AIDS epidemic, the subjects of Gurganus’s novel Plays Well with Others.
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Rilla Askew’s first novel, The Mercy Seat, stems from her family’s stories of the migration west to Oklahoma. This novel tracks the legacy of that journey: the violence, the clash of native and European cultures and the pioneers.
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Poet Marie Howe’s collection What the Living Do is an homage to her brother, John. Victoria Redel talks with her about love and loss.
>>>Louis Auchincloss has chronicled the lives of America’s upper class for over fifty years. Critical, mannered and witty, he discusses his book, The Atonement and Other Stories, with philosopher David Carrier.
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English actor Rupert Graves appeared in five films in the fall of 1997: Intimate Relations, Mrs. Dalloway, Bent, Different For Girls and The Revenge Comedies. American actress Nicole Burdette figures out how he got there.
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Out on the road, Los Lobos’ Louis Pérez and King Changó’s Andrew Blanco get down on ska, Godzilla and growing up Latino in the new America.
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Paula Vogel’s play, How I Learned to Drive, has won a slew of awards for its honesty, compassion and profound humor. The actress Mary-Louise Parker, who played the role of L’il Bit, now gets to direct, this time an interview.
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