Opinion
What Winning a Grant for my Art Writing Meant to Me
The money gave me the chance to prioritize my writing — something that I wish didn’t feel like a privilege but does — and it gave me the encouragement I needed to keep going.
Mimi Wong
Mimi Wong’s writing on art, culture, and literature has appeared in The Believer, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub, and Refinery29. She is Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine The Offing.
Art
Delivering the Internet, an Underground Network Keeps Cubans Connected
At the Queens Museum, an exhibition by Julia Weist and Nestor Siré explores Cuba's underground media-sharing network.
Film
A Film About Falling in Love and Geeking Out About Modernism
Set in the eponymous Indiana town, Kogonada's Columbus is a film about architecture with an Asian American aesthetic.
Books
The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction
In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.