Friday Links
She Is Me, I Am Her, But She Is Herself by Lee Nowell-Wilson
John Wilson in Comment: Magazine as Microcosm
What Have We Done to Hamlet? Micah Mattix in The Washington Examiner
E.J. Hutchinson in Ad Fontes: On a Poem by (or Not by) Emily Dickinson
From the Archives: Sanctifying the Ordinary: A Mother-Artist’s Journey Through the Holy and Mundane: An Interview with Lee Nowell-Wilson
John Wilson in Comment: Magazine as Microcosm
The always engaging John Wilson writes on magazines and what, at their best, they are. He begins at a conference, heads over to the garage, down to the basement, up to the attic. The miscellany to be found in these places:
“. . . resembles a magazine. The word’s origins are Arabic: makhāzin, which is the plural of makhzan, storehouse. All magazines are miscellaneous, but some magazines are more so than others: in Modern Ferret, all the various bits and pieces are about, well, ferrets. In the genre of the review (as instanced by magazines such as The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Literary Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, Books & Culture, and many others, including a growing number of webzines), miscellany thrives.”
What Have We Done to Hamlet? Micah Mattix in The Washington Examiner
Hamlet “is. . . embedded in popular culture in a way no other Shakespeare play is” and yet, as Mattix notes in this essay, popular culture often misses what’s most important about Halmet, particularly his indecisiveness. Mattix takes a look at some recent shows, movies, and plays, including The Northman, Station Eleven, and Fat Ham, and explores what they miss.
E.J. Hutchinson in Ad Fontes: On a Poem by (or Not by) Emily Dickinson
Hutchinson takes a look at different versions of Dickinson’s “Safe in the Alabaster Chambers” and asks: “What does “authorship” mean here, and what sort of “authority” does the first version of the text above have? What is the relationship between authorship, editing, and authority?”
From the Archives: Sanctifying the Ordinary: A Mother-Artist’s Journey Through the Holy and Mundane: An Interview with Lee Nowell-Wilson
This conversation between visual artist and founder/editor of MILKED, Lee Nowell-Wilson, and Jess Sweeney, visual artist and the Collegium Institute’s Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative director is really wonderful and well worth your time.
