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Issue 103 Spring 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Heir to the American visionary tradition, Bill Jensen’s art evolves through an intuitive process grounded in the act of painting. Poet John Yau tracks a lifetime.
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Mnemonics are the underlying force in Robert Polidori’s sumptuous photographs. With writer Michèle Gerber Klein, on Versailles, abandoned farms in North Dakota, and more.
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Cristina García, one of the most important Cuban American voices in literature, has a new novel, A Handbook to Luck. Chris Abani queries García on fate and free will.
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Lore Segal’s Shakespeare’s Kitchen, explores personal and historical events with startling insight. Playwright and novelist Han Ong reminisces with the author, a 2008 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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Mary Jordan’s documentary on the legendary Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures) fueled the same debates Smith faced in his lifetime—on authenticity, ownership, and purity of vision. With artist Nayland Blake.
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Best known in America for his controversial album with Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music, pianist, composer, and Zeitkratzer leader Reinhold Friedl speaks with collaborator Elliott Sharp.
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Sarah Ruhl won a MacArthur for The Clean House, which just closed at Lincoln Center in New York. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel sets the stage.
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Master actor John Turturro spoke with compatriot June Stein about the art of directing during previews of Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play.
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