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Three Angry Women
Last weekend I had brunch with my mother, and she related an incident from the day of the interboro bike race. My mom was walking through Central Park and found her way, and the way of several other...
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My Lost Poet
Anger and tenderness in Philip Levine. Photo: Frances Levine In the spring of 2012, Philip Levine delivered a lecture at the Library of Congress called “My Lost Poets,” marking the end of his tenure as...
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And I Was Like…
Gert Germeraad, Portrait of a Man, 2010. “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY FACE!” the woman screamed. My companion and I both turned around in alarm as we all mounted the escalator to the movie theater. “Oh,...
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Peckish
Ludwig Knaus, Mein Napf ist leer, 1886. I dislike the term hangry, a neologism conflating hungry and angry and thus describing the rage induced by hunger. Like PMS, it seems to conveniently dismiss any...
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Justification
German students fencing in the 1820s. The other day, I stopped to give myself a talking-to. I’m worried about you, I said sternly. Your constant outrage is not healthy, and all these self-righteous...
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Mudville
I have friends who rhapsodize about their new relationships with unabashed stars in their eyes. “How’s it going?” you ask a few weeks later, only to be told, “Oh—he was a sociopath!” Then you listen...
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Autumn Hours, Part 8
This is the last entry in Vanessa Davis’s column. Catch up with earlier installments here. Vanessa Davis is the author of the collections Spaniel Rage and Make Me a Woman. She is one of the Daily’s...
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Theater 101
On civility, risk, and the demonization of dissent. Maxime Dethomas, set design sketch for Les abeilles, 1917. I’m using this fifth installment of my opera column to offer a primer on theater, protest,...
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Staff Picks: Sports, Sontag, and Scheherazade
SLASH. Image courtesy of Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey. Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey’s play SLASH is so enjoyable it’s like having dessert for two hours with no intermission. One advertisement...
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Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
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