In the Path of the Los Angeles Fires
Under the fog of a winter dawn on January 7, two fires erupted in the mountains north of Los Angeles.…
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.
Sacro Bosco: All Reason Departs
I spent this past October on a writing residency in Toffia. Toward the end of my stay, I visited one…
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
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
Our fleeting encounters with strangers—in magazines, on the streets—leave a mark decades later.
Friendship and Rivalry: Manet and Degas
Manet, though older by only two years, is positioned as the wiser, more formidable painter.