Drew Zeiba

2 months ago | documentjournal.com | Drew Zeiba

A party at Mood Ring launched the British poet and director’s latest book “The light is pinstriped and scarce / but your eyes see everything: / particles in the air—colliding nebulas, / the sandcastle in the centre of the dance.”Caleb Femi’s The Wickedest depicts a single night at a long-running house party in South London. Each poem is timestamped. Photos and diagrams interpenetrate.

Jan 9, 2025 | documentjournal.com | Drew Zeiba

The New York-based writer’s debut collection spans four centuries while traversing mysterious landscapes She was blasting toward the horizon, surpassing 210 miles per hour over the Southwest’s desert dust. The world shuddered. “The light that she saw on the horizon was bright white, but then it switched, flickered, and turned black.” Or was it both at once?

Jan 8, 2025 | documentjournal.com | Drew Zeiba

The photographer’s recent project asks how architecture shapes reality in an era of mass tourism and simulation The eternal city, the city of sin—one viewed as fixed for centuries, the other constantly being built, dismantled, and rebuilt. Each with their graveyards: of millenia-old societies, of outmoded neon signs. Rome and Las Vegas might form opposites in the everyday imaginary, but might they have more in common than the mere simulations of the Italian capital dotting the Strip?

Nov 27, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Drew Zeiba

On the heels of the National Book Awards announcements, columnist Drew Zeiba asks what prizes mean for publishing Dinner at The Odeon, obviously. Saskia is in town for the National Book Awards. Ædnan, a novel-in-verse by the Sámi author Linnea Axelsson, which she translated, is nominated. “My dad is coming, he’s going to be here for the little silver medal ceremony,” she says, using her hands to indicate a ribbon being set over her collarbones. “So you already know who’s won?” I ask.

Nov 25, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Drew Zeiba

The filmmaker visits his family’s Chicago home, presenting an architectural vision of victory with local designers After a 100-year pause, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia reawakened US architects to the structures of yesteryear precipitating the Colonial Revival style that represented a large portion of homes through the 1960s, and finds itself in more schematic style in homes today.