Writing, Illuminations, Museum Poetica, Translucine Andreea Iulia Scridon & Adam J. Sorkin Writing, Illuminations, Museum Poetica, Translucine Andreea Iulia Scridon & Adam J. Sorkin

Ioan Flora // Andreea Iulia Scridon & Adam J. Sorkin

“I decided early that poetry is made of exact details.” Ultimately, in his poetry, [Flora’s] details are raised far beyond prosaic, everyday specification, simple catalogues of what make up, to use the title of one of his early books, The Physical World (1977).

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Criticism, Reflections, Reviews Patrick Zapien Criticism, Reflections, Reviews Patrick Zapien

“With eyes like ripening fruit”: Manoucher Yektai at Karma

It’s not true that the world is ending — if anything, it already has. And yet life continues, alive in its death. These thoughts — speculations — give a perfunctory account of the work of the late painter and poet Manoucher Yektai, a member of the New York School whose first solo show in the city since 1984 opened at Karma two weeks ago.

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Illuminations, Comics Roby Attal Illuminations, Comics Roby Attal

Part Time Hero 1

Meet the Part Time Hero! Long has the world marveled at the hero of the paneled page, but this figure of modern myth has remained in our collective imagination…until now. Caesura is proud to bring you the most realistic superhero of them all: a hero for our time, for all time… for part time!

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Art, Writing, Fiction Garrett Caples Art, Writing, Fiction Garrett Caples

Step Foot

It was just like the cartoons: two hands and a boot kicking the man out the door and headlong across the sidewalk into the gutter, where he landed with a sickening thud.

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Writing, Art Fleur Jaeggy Writing, Art Fleur Jaeggy

The Water Statues

Excerpt from Fleur Jaeggy’s novel, The Water Statues, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff & introduced by Caitlin Woolsey, with artwork by Ilona Szwarc.

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