Written by Elizabeth Tsurkov Darfuri asylum-seeker and actor, Babaker (Babi) Ibrahim was arrested by Israeli police on July 18, 2013 for not having a receipt for his bicycle, which was presumed to be stolen. Babi, a well-known figure in the Sudanese community in Israel, is a member of a refugee troupe that recently staged a […]
“Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth” at the Museum of Modern Art
This show filled me with radiating excitement. Beginning in 1960, Roth (whose real name, in German, is “Rot”) began creating pictorial books. Some are just arrangements of random dots. Some are pages of newspapers cut out, all to the same size — maybe 150 pages (in German, of course), bound like a paperback. Just before […]
Vignettes and Postcards
Vignettes and Postcards edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook contains a collection of humorous, lyrical, and philosophical short stories that I found utterly engaging. The editors demonstrated keen literary instincts in anthologizing these fine pieces of short fiction. Anna Pook led writer’s workshops for several years from an upstairs room at the Paris bookstore […]