Ben Lerner

The Pain Artist

The artist Ed Atkins’s video Pianowork 2 poses questions about the representation of reality.

The Rescue

The Faces of Victor Serge

The radical writer’s novels are unsettling explorations of the tension between individual and collective life.

Meridian Response

Force of Gravity

Steffani Jemison’s videos activate questions of visibility and knowability, of the relation between exterior and interior, with an astonishing economy of means.

Unknown Sources of Lift

“I think there’s an understandable but perilous tendency to conflate art and artist when the artist in question uses autobiographical elements in their work.”

The Storyteller

W.G. Sebald’s books suggest that we are powerless to remember adequately and powerless to forget.

The Lights

Past Imperfect

Erica Hunt’s Jump the Clock is eerily appropriate for a time when a pandemic has suspended the normal temporal rhythms for so many of us, while laying bare our mortally uneven relationship to those rhythms.

The Son

The Rose

a poem

Les Marronniers

a poem

The Pistil

a poem

Also Known as Hurtsickle, Cyani Flower, and Bachelor’s Button

a poem