Millennial Notes Indira Etwaroo Stages Black Lives in Glass Boxes by Abby Tozer A Brooklyn cityscape overlooks the bright yellow street mural memorializing 159 Black victims of injustice—from Emmett Till to Breonna Taylor. The vast, bright yellow letters proclaim the names of the dead. The name “TAMIR RICE” is boldly painted in front of…
Emily Mann Highlights Steinem’s Fabulous Feminism by Barry David Horwitz Emily Mann’s Off-Broadway play “Gloria: A Life” offers a shocking timeline of how professional women were treated from the 70s onwards. The rights women enjoy today were unheard of when Gloria Steinem started working in New York as a journalist. Bosses tried to seduce…
Millennial Notes Matt Cox Appeals to PotterHeads & New ‘Puffs’ by Abby Tozer Twenty-three years ago, novelist J.K. Rowling created a magical world of witchcraft and wizardry. We all fell in love with the boy with a lightning bolt scar, Harry Potter, who pursued the greater good—across seven beautifully crafted books. But what else…
Jorge Luis Borges Meets the Moment in New York Closet by Jennifer Ann Charron Not a lot of good has come out of 2020. Even the most privileged, most content, most well-adjusted of us seem to be struggling to find any light. But last week, I witnessed a marvelous source of resilience for the dark…