Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

By Yvonne C. Garrett

OCT 2020 | Books

Across some 200 pages, Garza applies a lingual scalpel to the narrative of systemic violence: a narrative enacted on both sides of the border by governments, law enforcement, drug cartels, and the media who sensationalize, erase, or ignore the violence. She

9. [Lower East Side]

By Raphael Rubinstein

JUNE 2020 | The Miraculous

It’s the evening of October 22, 1962 and President Kennedy has just announced in a televised address “that it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”

Side Issues

By George Rush

OCT 2020 | Critics Page

With the notable exception of the brilliant Beverly Fishman, who encouraged us to question all forms of painting, my education didn’t really consider the sides of paintings. They were painted white—that ever-problematic stand-in for neutrality—or stained by action on the front, but more often simply ignored.

West Side Story: Ill-fated Passion Burns Anew

By Susan Yung

MAR 2020 | Dance

Robbins’ contributions and choreography in the original versions will forever be treasured, but De Keersmaeker has provided powerful, contemporary new dances that shine.