Focus: Dance — May / June 2019
nina2022-06-17T14:45:54+00:00Dance is one of the most pure forms of human expression, and one of the most intimidating. Done well, it requires both wild abandon and adherence to the rules of technique.
Focus: #MeToo — March / April 2019
nina2022-06-17T15:14:55+00:00The #MeToo movement carries the momentum of moments, both sensational and unremarkable, that validate women's experiences of real and ongoing sexual and gender-based violence.
Focus: Graphic Nonfiction — January / February 2019
nina2022-06-17T19:10:12+00:00Creators from all over the planet have used graphic nonfiction to distill and critically reconstruct the historical, social, and political elements that make up the minutiae of everyday life.
Focus: Graphic Fiction — November / December 2018
nina2022-06-16T20:07:13+00:00Graphic fiction uses visual and verbal shaping devices to create fictional stories that invite and guide imaginative re-construction.
Focus: Theater — September / October 2018
nina2022-06-17T16:02:59+00:00Theater is life. It is in our nature to perform. From our youngest childhood experiences, we appropriate characters and roles.
Focus: Secular Writing — July / August 2018
nina2022-06-17T19:16:59+00:00Secular writing is averse to certain forms of normativism and ritualism but supportive of humanistic engagements with the spiritual.
Focus: Harassment — May / June 2018
nina2024-06-26T20:45:25+00:00Harassment exists on a continuum with violence. The coping mechanisms people cultivate to prevent and deal with harassment become habitual.
Focus: Critical Lives II — January / April 2018
nina2022-06-17T21:00:17+00:00Curiosity about a critic's life and times is directly tied to our interest in criticism itself.
Focus: Biofiction — November / December 2017
nina2022-06-17T20:56:07+00:00For the author of biofiction, of utmost importance is the artist and his or her creative vision, not the biographical subject or the historical past.
Focus: Erotic Poetry — September / October 2017
nina2022-06-17T21:49:30+00:00Sexiness is complicated. To try too hard at being sexy is awful. But to deny ourselves the pleasure of erotic poetry (whether bawdy or tender or teasing) because it's deemed somehow intellectually feeble, is worse.
Focus: Postcritique — July / August 2017
nina2022-06-18T21:17:18+00:00Postcritique represents a method and a moment—both for the practice of reading and for the discipline of literary studies.
Focus: Writers People Love to Hate — May / June 2017
nina2022-06-18T21:15:24+00:00Aesthetic disagreements have a long and spectacular history of bile and hatred. But literary study has become a war of political ideology rather than a dialogue concerning aesthetics.
