Category: Journalism & Criticism
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Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? (New York Times)
A new exhibition at the country’s national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer.
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At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing (New York Times)
A dark, enigmatic staging of Mozart’s opera brings together the director Romeo Castellucci and the conductor Teodor Currentzis.
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Translation: Only In Germany, by Fabian Wolff (Die Zeit)
I translated this remarkable essay by Fabian Wolff about being a Jew in Germany – and the attacks on Jewish pluralism in Germany from the people who claim to be the Jews’ biggest defenders.
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On Faggots and Class Struggle (Pinko)
In 1976, a conference attempted to suss out the intimate connections between social reproductive labor and faggot organizing. I introduce a troubling and remarkable excerpt from the documentation of this conference in the most recent Pinko.
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The New Queer Photography (Verlag Kettler)
This carefully researched and richly designed book, edited by Benjamin Wolbergs, introduces around 40 queer contemporary photographic positions, including those of well-established photographers as well as plenty of unknown and less well-known talent. For the book, I wrote all of the short descriptions of the photographers’ work; as well as several longer essays about documentary…
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Full-Scale Wagner Returns to Europe With a Refugee-Theme ‘Walküre’ (New York Times)
Delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, Stefan Herheim’s “Ring” cycle, rumored for a future Met Opera season, gets underway in Berlin.
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The Drama Will Be Enhanced by Testing (New York Times)
A report from the Salzburg festival, where a coordinated display of will, political connections, and deep pockets is attempting to make grand opera happen in the middle of a pandemic.
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A Queer Anthology of Healing (Pilot Press)
A story of mine, previously published in SAND Journal, will appear in Pilot Press’ “Queer Anthology of Healing,” alongside work by Lubaina Himid, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Helen Cammock, Mary Manning, Timothy Thornton, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chuck Nanney, Fanny Howe, Monique Mouton, D Mortimer, Verity Spott, Clay AD, Edward Thomasson, Paul Lee and more. UK: order from…
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Larry Kramer’s Great Expectations (Literary Hub)
An essay about the complicated life and written legacy of the writer and AIDS activist Larry Kramer.
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Considering Garth Greenwell’s Revolutionary Erotics (Literary Hub)
An essay on Garth Greenwell’s new collection Cleanness, and the sex and politics within.