Category: review

• Literary Burdens

  Jan 23

  Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up Alvin Lu’s Daydreamers. Not because of disinterest but because I didn’t want it to end.… more ›

• Review: The Hairy Ape | The Classics Theatre Project | The Core Theatre

  Oct 20

  Drew Maggs (foreground) as Yank in The Classics Theatre Project’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. Lloyd Harvey and Louis Shopen in background. Photo by Kris Ikjeri. Richardson, Texas… more ›

• A Year in Art

  Feb 5

  For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›

• Alive and Kicking

  Sep 21

  Berlin-based Rixdorf Editions continues to establish itself as the premier publisher of Wilhelminia in English translation. Although a streak of social conservatism marks the reign of German Emperor Wilhelm II,… more ›

• Ditch Water Poems

  Aug 17

  There was a time when I tried to read literary journals until I realized why they were utterly unreadable to me: all action resided in the head and everything took… more ›

• Review: A Luminous History of the Palm by Jessica Sequeira

  Apr 16

   Not really a question: is it any wonder that I began this book while flying to California, the place where palm trees first took root in my imagination. But a… more ›

• Wonder Years: A Review of 926 Years by Kyle Coma-Thompson and Tristan Foster

  Jan 21

   A few weeks ago I received a circular in the mail for a real estate company. The business had been around for a few decades but it boasted having hundreds… more ›

• The Plat Thickens: A Review of John Trefry’s Plats

  Jan 17

  In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap between perception and judgment: If I look out of the… more ›

• The Top 10 North Texas Play Productions of 2019

  Jan 2

  I attended 46 theater productions this past year, all of them in North Texas. Later this week TheaterJones will publish my year’s highlights list, in which you’ll be able to… more ›

• Opening(s): An Education

  Dec 16

  When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to have exclaimed, “New information for me.” If, like Dalí, fisting… more ›