From a distance
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The short stories in Michelle Berry’s collection, I Still Don’t Even Know You, present the same kind of perspective on people that you get by watching them at night under the glare of a...
Keeping with how stories work
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Writer Thomas King once said “the truth about stories is that that’s all we are,” and literally, that’s true. Human culture exists only because of language, and at its deepest level telling stories is...
Letting the big ones get away
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Somewhere in the last quarter of the 20th century, between the fuel shortage crises, global warming and the irreversible devastation of fragile ecosystems as the global population hit six billion, news hit the headlines...
It’s not me, it’s you
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{ The pair sits facing each other in a neutral public place. The novel is Dance with Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from Spanish by Lee Paula Springer. The book reviewer looks awkward,...
Just turn off your cellphone
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Advice for people going to see Headspace: you should probably turn off your cell-phones. If it goes off, neither the actors nor the audience will bother to mock you; the script does that for...
Hands-on and Hyperlinked
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When asked about his latest work, Headspace, playwright and U of M theatre alumni Mike Bell described it as a “play that feels like a surfing session — you get fragments of scenes, ...
The Realest
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Walking through Kristjana Wood’s exhibition is much like going through a nature interpretation center or an aquarium. These exquisitely rendered paintings each focus on a single living subject, among them animals, plants, insects and...
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