Writers Gregg Bordowitz, Pamela Sneed, Sur Rodney (Sur) and Lynne Tillman discuss how the AIDS crisis changed art writing, and what lessons writers might carry over to the Covid-19 pandemic
With ‘Men and Apparitions’ – her first novel to be published in the UK since 1999 – Tillman deep-dives into photography and its lovers
In Reenacting Scenes from the Vietnam War, Le Upends – and Subverts – Landscape
The comedian’s aggressions are meant to produce pleasure, but often result in arguments and criticism
Our lives – like menus – are an assortment of so-called ‘choices’
‘Movies don’t change, and I do, and I don’t. Memory isn’t a choice and, like everyone, I forget way more than I can recall, necessarily.’
Lynne Tillman on the clash between real-life and expectation
‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’
What does a picture tell? Not one story
From Kader Attia's couscous sculptures and Isa Genzken's 'towers', to Rorschach tests and Tony Kushner's Angels in America
A rare, newly-published interview with the late October editor, reveals an art critic intent on changing the terms of the debate
Lynne Tillman on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a tightly wrought film about a tightly controlled man
Growing old and growing value
Dave Chappelle's comedy of discomfort
A new play by Wallace Shawn examines what it means to survive in today’s society
How remembering the AIDS epidemic helps endure the crises of today
Drowning sorrows and watching Warhol’s Drunk aka Drink
A new anthology of writing by Lynne Tillman shows us what narrative fiction, and criticism, can be
Finding hope in hopeless times
Trump, trigger alerts and trauma