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Quinn on Books: A Plunge Into a New Reality, by Michael Quinn
Review of War Diary, by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Greg Nissan Right now, as you read this, there’s a war going on. Maybe you know every detail. Maybe you’ve skimmed the headlines. Maybe it feels like it has nothing to do with you. But what if the war was happening where you lived? You might think, This can’t be happening. You might think, Someone has to do something. But what if no one did?
Review: 'War Diary,' by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated from German by Greg Nissan
Thirty-three days after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian writer Yevgenia Belorusets types the following words into a public diary she'd been keeping for the German newspaper Der Spiegel since the start of the war: "My previous entry was an eternity ago. At least that is how I perceive it." From her apartment in the center of Kyiv, not far from where the 2014 Maidan Revolution toppled a pro-Russian leader, Belorusets observes the surreal distortions of war, echoing the words of other Ukrainians.
War Diary | New Directions Publishing
War Diary—copublished with ISOLARII—is a monumental, deeply penetrating document of life in Kyiv during the first forty-one days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine Available March 7, 2023 Included in the Available Titles catalog Literature by Yevgenia Belorusets Translated from the German by Greg Nissan The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022.
Terms of Exchange: Caroline Bergvall Interviewed by Greg Nissan - BOMB Magazine
Caroline Bergvall’s latest book, Alisoun Sings (Nightboat Books), is the last in a trilogy based on medieval sources. In her signature palimpsest of contemporary and Middle English, Bergvall turns Alisoun (that much-debated pilgrim from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) into a composite for centuries of women, artists, and activists speaking truth to power. In this book as well as in her many performance pieces, Bergvall’s polyvocal and translingual compositions act as a material history of English.
At Berlin’s Gropius Bau, A Biting Survey of Pakistani Artist Bani Abidi
The video and print-based works in Pakistani artist Bani Abidi’s exhibition ‘They Died Laughing’ at Berlin’s Gropius Bau draw us into the side-wings of the nation state: a sculptor’s studio in Uttar Pradesh, India, where public Gandhi statues are churned out, or the viscous flow of everyday bureaucracy. Mixing documentary and scripted scenes with a smirk, Abidi presents state power as a roving centre, setting up operation for a photo shoot or a traffic check point.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s Closed Circuits of Desire
In ‘Deep Adaptation’ at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger paints cars in static states – as if displayed on a dealership platform or parked at some teenage make-out destination. Taking cues from car assembly, the 12 oil paintings (all works 2019) use hinged and folding canvases that open outward like suicide doors.
New Feelings: Phatic Checking — Real Life
A Google Alert on my name has helped me wring the compulsion to “stay informed” After some hacking attempts on my accounts in 2017, I set a Google Alert for my name. I didn’t expect the strobe of grim and banal headlines that would follow. The first type: An unfortunate Greg dies in or causes a Nissan crash. The second: An entrepreneurial Greg opens a Nissan dealership, or spearheads the new spring sales event.
Polar Opposites
David Longstreth’s songs don’t explain him; they imitate him. The creative force and leader of The Dirty Projectors, Longstreth has founded a career on a stubbornly quirky approach. He formed the band in 2000 as a solo project while he was a freshman at Yale, but he dropped out soon, recording so much in his dorm room that he barely attended classes.
Four Poems by Greg Nissan - BOMB Magazine
From The City Is Lush With / Obstructed Views Overcast cobalt, tile unbolted, pictures On loan require empty space Like an expletive. Grisaille pigeons, Endemic to our swamp of Commission. If it is you Lay and remove the scaffold, It won’t be called making But revision tills the hand Hedonic. It loses its loss scratching fraction I realize you faked your Agora.
Per/sonals - 3:AM Magazine
It’s not you, it’s me. It’s You -porn. It’s not you, it’s me -at. It’s a pain ting of wheat-s cript, soon to feat ure on butter pack -aging. It’s not me -an, it’s just. It’s just ice, don’t s lip. It’s not you it’s u -lulation, a call a caul -drone of rip ples rip ping in to lit tler rip ples, or igin unk noun. More verbiage? M -ore st -ream’s plum -ing said -iment than plumage? It’s not eit her one of us.
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