October 2025
The First Walküre at Santa Fe Opera Strings of Fate and a Fridge In this first-ever production of Die Walküre at Santa Fe Opera, British theater director Melly Still starts out with unusual notes of humor. Renate Stendhal
To Be Continued The Bear: Season 4; Dept. Q: Season 1 Two excellent television series—one a well-established favorite, the other an exciting newcomer—streamed their latest seasons this summer. Miles David Moore
State Library Victoria Australia’s oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. Jon Rendell
Hanging Out The Making of Americans After 100 Years I don’t remember where I first heard about it, but it seemed such a barbaric act – cutting a mammoth paperback book in half in order to read it. Hans Gallas
The Walks and Runs of Guinness We try to take Guinness for at least two walks a day, one early and one toward (human) dinner time. For the most part, he is a peppy walker, moving down the street with a bounce. Michael Bettencourt
Life Upon the Wicked Stage On the joy of hearing a stream of words and music from gifted non-internet writers and composers and phrased by a magical non-internet voice. Arthur Meiselman
Everyone's busted Wow what a nap. Dreaming me and a bunch of my French cousins are Tearin’. It. Up. Running around the dining room table, like we used to do when we were kids. Claudine Jones
The Pyongyang International Film Festival and the Genius of the Cinema All right, dear readers. The Pyongyang International Film Festival is just around the corner from October 22-27. Can you feel the excitement? No, I didn’t think so. Les Marcott
Arthur Sze, A Brief Introduction Given the ongoing turmoil around government support for the arts and humanities , the announcement of Arthur Sze’s appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate is particularly welcome. Gregory Luce
I’ve Known Mountains To riff on the opening line of a Langston Hughes poem, I’ve known mountains. Patrick Walsh
Lending an Ear to The Making of Americans Karren Alenier
Here are 7 of my favorite little poems David Alpaugh
Another Story of More Fakes Kandinsky’s friend Larionov was “Honored” with an Even Bigger Scandal. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Songdej Thipthong Painting, Sculpture, and Installation Art in the Lanna Thai Style. Janine Yasovant
Notes on Kundalini and the Ticking of the Biological Clock/ Part One There were no gods in the First Age, and there were no demons. Brian George
writings
Listening To A Movie Altenir Silva A fic-review of White Noise (2022), produced by Uri Singer, directed by Noah Baumbach and based on the novel by Don DeLillo.
Life Upon The Wicked Stage Arthur Meiselman On the Travesty of Writing a Continuous Stream of Commentary
imagery
Painting Certain Rites of Summer Poetry For A Few French Poets The Art of David Wiley
The Art of SS. Burrus A Retrospective
When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people will appear on the Earth
Patrick Nagel It’s in the Eyes
media
Audio
Theatre Thoughts An entertaining array of audio essays on an array of theatre topics by an astute and entertaining essayist
You Don’t Say! Occasional Musings by an occasionally amused writer
Video
Undress Me In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her, by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue
Light Fantastic Weighty matters of brain neurons and addiction, two kisses, single-malt scotch, the green dance of blue, yellow lasers
Ear Buds What happens when we love our devices — and they love us back
The Greed Gene A young couple is told by their genetic counselor that their child has the greed gene, there is nothing they can do
letters
books
Special—Issues
July/August 2015|●
Everything Old Is New Again January 2013|●
What Is Obscenity and What’s Not? January 2012|●
A Brief But Quirky History of the Arts January 2011|●
The Rising Fall of the Arts January 2010|●
The One January 2009|●
What Is Art? January 2008|●
View of the Arts January 2007|●
The Art of Sex in the Arts February 2006|●
State of the Art of the Arts October 2005|●
Special—Indexes
The Steiny Road Index of Karren Alenier’s columns and writings|●
Writings Index of Arthur Meiselman’s and Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
Good Reading Is Currently On Sale Here
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