Colette LaBouff Atkinson, Associate Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine this year, is a couple months into her post as Zócalo’s poetry editor, selecting published and unpublished works to post here every week. Atkinson stopped by Zócalo’s offices to read from her own collection of poems, Mean, published last year.
Mary Favret, associate professor of English at Indiana University, began work on War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime after coming across “a big anthology by …
Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, started to collect the material for Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told over …
The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages
by Spike Bucklow
–Reviewed by Saskia Vogel
Does Jerry Buss know just how fitting the purple and gold of his …
Ted Gioia, author of The Birth (and Death) of the Cool, dropped by Zócalo’s office to explain why the hip, ironic pose we’ve come to know as “coolness” is over, …
Jean-Marie Apostolidès, a professor of French and drama at Stanford University, last read the Tintin comic books – about a youthful globe-trotting journalist – when he was a boy. Decades …
