Michelle Orange

2 weeks ago | shorturl.at | Michelle Orange

Two greyhounds at night, 2019, oil on panel by Clare Menck © The artist. Courtesy 99 Loop Gallery In the home of America’s last active tracks, tradition and uncertainty run neck and neck This story appears in the Summer 2025 print edition with the title “Comely in Going.” Pre-order the Y'all Street Issue here. They look ancient because they are. Eight in all, each one led by a teenaged handler in a royal purple t-shirt, the dogs cut a silhouette at odds with their surroundings.

2 weeks ago | oxfordamerican.org | Michelle Orange

Two greyhounds at night, 2019, oil on panel by Clare Menck © The artist. Courtesy 99 Loop Gallery In the home of America’s last active tracks, tradition and uncertainty run neck and neck This story appears in the Summer 2025 print edition with the title “Comely in Going.” Pre-order the Y’all Street Issue here. They look ancient because they are. Eight in all, each one led by a teenaged handler in a royal purple t-shirt, the dogs cut a silhouette at odds with their surroundings.

Jan 10, 2025 | 4columns.org | Michelle Orange

The Room Next Door Michelle Orange A Clean, Well-Lighted Death: Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as two women whose friendship is rekindled in the face of terminal cancer. Julianne Moore as Ingrid and Tilda Swinton as Martha in The Room Next Door. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. Photo: Iglesias Más. © El Deseo.

Jun 21, 2024 | 4columns.org | Michelle Orange

Janet Planet Michelle Orange A loving mother-daughter bond fumbles tenderly toward rupture in Annie Baker’s debut feature. Julianne Nicholson as Janet and Zoe Ziegler as Lacy in Janet Planet. Courtesy A24. Janet Planet, written and directed by Annie Baker, now playing in New York City theaters, opens nationwide June 28, 2024•   •   •The heart of a child is a gerrymandered thing: bound—rigged, you might say—to fix itself upon the nearest viable adult.

Apr 5, 2024 | 4columns.org | Michelle Orange

We Loved It All Michelle Orange A climate-crisis anti-memoir by novelist Lydia Millet makes a case for humility before nature. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, by Lydia Millet, W. W. Norton, 254 pages, $27.99•   •   •To be a person of any conscience and basic or greater means, today, is to hedge every hour, to barter through each day.