Tragic Strip

By Tom Motley

MAY 2019 | Fiction

Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.

It's Not A Safe Space But It’s Where We Live: Listening to Stew and the Negro Problem's Notes of a Native Song and Total Bent

By Eric Wallach

NOV 2018 | Music

It’s rare when a new album comes out that affects us so deeply that we are impelled to listen to it repeatedly and write down its lyrics. That’s what happens with Stew and the Negro Problem’s two fresh cast albums

Julián Herbert’s Tomb Song

By Maya Chung

MAY 2018 | Books

At the hospital bedside of his dying mother, Julián Herbert, the narrator of Tomb Song, oscillates between memories of his youth in Mexico and musings on his mother’s decline.

Another Song, Another Feeling

By Rennie McDougall

JUNE 2018 | Dance

“You go for the obvious,” Charles Atlas told Performing Arts Journal in 1997, discussing his films that are populated with everything from Merce Cunningham’s choreography to Leigh Bowery’s drag.