Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans

By Henry Hicks IV

JUNE 2023 | Books

Brandon Taylor has a lot to say about truth. The characters in his new novel, The Late Americans, descend on Iowa City, home of the fabled University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program—an intentional setting for Taylor’s exploration of voyeurism, communication, and, yes, truth, in today’s America. In its opening, Taylor tosses the reader into a live workshop debate on the merits of poems that center trauma—its buried question being, “Whose voice is an authority? Whose experiences spur truth—yours or mine?”

Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (Show)

By Ksenia Soboleva

JUL-AUG 2022 | ArtSeen

Last month, Eisenman opened Untitled (Show) featuring a total of twelve paintings and seven sculptures spread across two floors. The expansive room on the fifth floor presents a series of ten (mostly) large canvases depicting a range of subject matter.

Excerpt from Benjamin Patterson with Kathy Goncharov

By Sam Vernon

SEPT 2022 | Critics Page

The excerpt is from an oral history transcript of a recorded interview with Benjamin Patterson on May 22, 2009.

The Brooklyn Presence at SXSW

By Nic Yeager

MAY 2022 | Film

Between March 11 and 20, four Brooklyn-based short films screened at SXSW, each shot in Brooklyn and made by and featuring Brooklynites. SXSW is known for celebrating innovation in tech and education, and these projects offer their own kind of innovation: namely, an irreplaceable artistic ingenuity that flows out of this borough.