Brianna Di Monda

Brianna Di Monda is a Brooklyn-based writer and the managing editor for the Cleveland Review of Books. She earned her BA in French and comparative literature at Oberlin College, where she wrote her undergraduate thesis on Hélène Cixous’s and Sarah Kofman’s contributions to post-structural feminist theory. Bri’s criticism and essays have been featured in Lapham’s Quarterly, Dissent, The Nation, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other places. Her current interest lies in stories that put gender, surrealism, and lineage into productive tension without offering clean resolution.

Eva Struble at Jane Lombard Gallery

Eva Struble at Jane Lombard Gallery

Yet unlike Parrish, these images have not sprung from her imagination: she paints the places she has lived, invested in…
Paul Resika at Bookstein Projects

Paul Resika at Bookstein Projects

While realized in a quasi-abstract visual language of reductive forms and spare color, each painting evokes a sense of wonder…
Martin Wong and Paul P. at P·P·O·W Gallery

Martin Wong and Paul P. at P·P·O·W Gallery

Our fleeting encounters with strangers—in magazines, on the streets—leave a mark decades later.
Friendship and Rivalry: Manet and Degas

Friendship and Rivalry: Manet and Degas

Manet, though older by only two years, is positioned as the wiser, more formidable painter.