narrative Archive
Photography and Language in John McPhee’s “Under the Cloth”
The view camera creates a particular kind of image through extreme pause and meticulous composition; by writing about a view camera, McPhee creates a particular kind of essay, one that uses the techniques of both view camera photography and narrative.
Narrative and Anti-Narrative in the Poetry of Sexual Assault
In the brief back-cover description of Lauren Berry’s The Lifting Dress, we read: “Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after she has been raped.”
With Late Capitalism Hovering in the Background: In Conversation with Wendy Xu and Jesse Hlebo
“We live in a late-capitalist situation where if something is not worth money then culture says it’s not worth anything at all.”
On Questioning Narrative Sequence
At the Contemporary Museum of Art in Montreal, Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” plays on nine screens in a dark theater. Each screen features a single musician set to the backdrop of a room in a chateau, which is in disrepair: one woman in a pale lace dress plays cello