Rhoda Feng

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rhoda Feng

In Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's fizzy new musical, an internet sleuth searches for a pop star wannabe who went missing along with her low-rise jeans. The Last Bimbo of the ApocalypseNYT Critic's Pick The image is instantly familiar: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears crammed into a car, caught in a paparazzi flash, on the cover of The New York Post.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Rhoda Feng

In “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li writes from a terrain no one chooses to map. Her spare memoir confronts the suicide of her younger son James in 2024, six years and four months after her older son Vincent ended his life. Vincent was 16 when he died in 2017; James was 19. Both died near their home in Princeton, N.J. “This book is about life’s extremities, about facts and logic, written from a particularly abysmal place where no parent would want to be,” notes Li early on in her new book.

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Rhoda Feng

Jamieson Webster treats psychoanalysis not as a static body of knowledge but as something to be tested, stretched, and reimagined. A practicing analyst, she is also a professor, writer, and public intellectual whose work pushes the field beyond the consulting room. She has collaborated with artists, written for general audiences, and even performed in plays.

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Rhoda Feng

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereFirst thought, best thoughtAn essay collection with strict parameters The forty-two essays that Tom McAllister wrote for this book began as an attempt to unshackle himself from social media and its brain-rotting effects. He set strict parameters: one essay for every year he’s been alive, no substantive research, a 1,500-word limit, each draft completed in one sitting.

1 month ago | artforum.com | Rhoda Feng

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