Joan Acocella

Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mark Morris, Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder, and Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. She also edited the recent, unexpurgated Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.

From the Review

July 13, 2006: 'Beware of Pity'

June 8, 2006: Between Comedy and Horror

The Afterlife by Donald Antrim

June 9, 2005: 'A Note of the Miraculous'

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

February 26, 2004: No Bloody Toe Shoes

The Company a film by Robert Altman, story by Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner, screenplay by Barbara Turner

December 21, 2000: The Neapolitan Finger

Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity (La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano) by Andrea de Jorio, translated and edited by Adam Kendon

January 14, 1999: Secrets of Nijinsky

August 14, 1997: 'Sweet as a Fig'

Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh

June 6, 1996: On Tap

Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk choreography by Savion Glover. conceived and directed by George C. Wolfe. at the Ambassador Theatre, New York City

November 16, 1995: Heroes and Hero Worship

Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein

Following Balanchine by Robert Garis

April 7, 1994: The Long Goodbye

New York City Ballet's 'Balanchine Celebration' September 1994) directed by Matthew Diamond. produced by Dance in America, Channel 13/WNET

October 11, 1990: Dancing for Balanchine

Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography by Suzanne Farrell, with Toni Bentley

From New York Review Books

Beware of Pity The most widely read author writing in German prior to the rise of the Nazis, Zweig captures the torment of betrayal in a powerful study of affliction.

Books by Joan Acocella

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2000)
Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder (1999)
Mark Morris (1993)