Steffani Jemison’s A Rock, A River, A Street

By Tara Aisha Willis

MARCH 2023 | Art Books

Reading A Rock, A River, A Street is like finding a way through an enigmatic moment of performance: the body is the thing that connects feelings and experiences, moves us through them. It is a train of thought, a largely unvoiced internal monologue to which we are given partial access.

Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye

By Megan N. Liberty

FEB 2022 | Art Books

These collages use the multiple interpretations and histories of the stitch to explore masculinity, sexuality, and marginal identities. In a moment when conversations around the policing of Black bodies in public space continue to grow and gain momentum, Montes-Michie’s quiet scenes of interiority dramatically change the context.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By Rona Lorimer

MAY 2022 | Field Notes

The French presidential elections brought what many were dreading, a standoff between what has long been called the “authoritarian liberalism” of Emmanuel Macron and the “avowed fascism” of Marine Le Pen.

Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

By George Grella

JUL-AUG 2021 | Music

To interpolate an old line about sports, fans hear with their hearts. Hopper is a critic who, like all of us, is originally a fan, and that delineating is often hazy and, in the space of this book, self-contradictory—not in the way that happens to us all, having an opinion about a thing and then later changing our minds, but in terms of values.