Elizabeth Lothian

MARCH 2023 Issue ArtSeen On View The Bass Museum Of Art Adrián Villar Rojas & Mariana Telleria: El fin de la imaginación November 27, 2022–May 14, 2023 Miami The feet of a fallen David face me as I experience a sensory shift that feels mystical. Minutes earlier I was under the glaring sun, next to the churning sea.

Photo credit: Thad Lee Elizabeth Miki Brina’s debut memoir Speak, Okinawa is a nuanced investigation of self, lineage, and inheritance. Born in the 1980s to an Okinawan mother and a white, American, ex-military father, Brina struggled with the duality of her identity. She connected more with her father—the dominant force in her family triad—often in an attempt to fit in with the 99 percent white suburb in which she grew up, and this made her feel distant from her already isolated mother.

Melissa Febos in her previous works has investigated herself with smart, hawk-eyed precision and dazzling prose. In Girlhood, Febos’s new essay collection, she turns her unflinching eye to the experience of coming of age in a female body. Pulling from her own memories and reflections, interspersed with those of women she interviewed, Febos reveals how even the most “normal,” fortunate girlhood is filled with experiences that can be described as traumatic.