September 2025
Santa Fe Opera’s The Turn of the Screw British composer Benjamin Britten faced a challenge when he took on the famous story by Henry James. A ghost story based on an ambiguity. Renate Stendhal
Be Grateful to Your Betters Mountainhead, The Phoenician Scheme Two noted filmmakers, Jesse Armstrong and Wes Anderson, have made new movies about the delusions of the very rich. Miles David Moore
The Transamerica Pyramid A striking example of futuristic modernist architecture with a distinctive pyramidal form. Jon Rendell
The You and I of Poetry All my favorite poems have a You and an I—although they don’t always use those pronouns explicitly, as do Eliot, Frost, and Dickinson. David Alpaugh
Roots and Vines This does not keep me from having thoughts/dreams about all that we removed coming back to reclaim its claim to the earth, taking vengeance on the despoilers. Michael Bettencourt
La Furia I saw my first bullfight when I was twenty... in an arena in Madrid and it was bewildering, frightening, disgusting, exhilarating, thrilling and very stimulating for the macho ego. Arthur Danin Adler
Stop Telling Stories I've lost track of how many calls come in that don't have caller ID—at least 75%. What to do, what to do; to answer or not to answer? Claudine Jones
The Day I Cleaned Captain Redneck’s Carpet Back in the days when I was a struggling college student at West Texas State. I did carpet cleaning here and there to make ends meet. Les Marcott
Songs of Yearning Rarely has a collection of poems so perfectly embodied the experiences of the poet as does this collection by Majda Gama. Gregory Luce
Reunions I ran into a high school classmate of mine, Guy I knew from the cross-country team. I was at this restaurant in the city/. Patrick Walsh
Are AI-Generated Book Reviews Putting Book Reviewers Out of Business? Karren Alenier
The You and I of Poetry David Alpaugh
Order, Chaos, and the Shine of Bakelite: Production Design in Babylon Berlin and Agatha Christie's Poirot The sheer scale of Weimar Berlin could never be built to full height, so Babylon Berlin relies on digital set extensions to stitch together one seamless metropolis. Vlad Bina - edited by Lissa Tyler Renaud
Somrak Maneemai My art avoids sketches or fixed plans—focusing instead on improvisation, chance, and freshness of the moment. Janine Yasovant
The Music of the Spheres, Again Audible There are moments when the world comes suddenly to a stop, when a schism opens, into which one may or may not fall. Brian George
writings
It’s Not My Town Anymore Altenir Silva As I was strolling down the main street near my house, I found myself memorizing all the buildings along the way.
imagery
Painting Encounter Poetry Transubstantiation 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
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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 Danin Adler’s columns and writings|●
Kandinsky Anew Index of the series by Lissa Tyler Renaud|●
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