Category: Reviews

Here are the concluding acts of “Worlds Collide,” my play about the hesitant, contradictory, hysterical articulation of Christianity in the 4th-5th centuries A.D. I hope my principal inspirations are...

“Worlds Collide,” Act II

by James Livingston | Jan 22, 2021 | Features, Fiction, Theater

ACT II [Lights come up, dawn is breaking, Marcellinus, Augustine, and Jeromeare in various stages of sleep on their respective couches, obviously inebriated—platters of food, bottles of wine are everywhere. Pelagiusis...

Throwing Your Voice

by James Livingston | Jul 8, 2020 | Commentary, Music

I’ve felt the urge to play out recently, well, duh, precisely because I can’t. I was trying to get into an online/virtual open mic up the street, at Lenox Coffee on 129th, but it kept postponing a reopening, so I complained to...

The Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition of Women’s Talent

by Arielle Isack | Jun 1, 2020 | Books, First Person

Arielle Isack The first time I ever heard of Jia Tolentino was when an editor at our college...

“The Birds, and the Stars, and the Chimney Sweeps”: Revisiting the Anti-Capitalist Moral World of “Mary Poppins” in Light of its New Sequel

by Olivia Rutigliano | Apr 11, 2019 | Film

In December 2018 I strolled into an evening showing of a movie I had formerly committed to avoid...

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood — With Animals

by Matthew Barlow | Apr 8, 2019 | Music, Reviews

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood With Animals Heavenly/Ipecac This is the second collaboration between Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood. Lanegan cut his teeth as the front man of the most under-rated of the great Seattle...