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Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

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Art and Culture on Their Own Terms in “Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “Sitting down to write a letter, with an addressee and signatory, is an intimate experience,” editors Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam write in the introduction of Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. The pretext is deceptively simple: Ho, a visual artist, and Nam, a curator, invited Asian Americans, loosely defined, working … Read more

Gender Identity, Pop Culture Homage, & the Twenty-First-Century Western in “The Neon Hollywood Cowboy” – Chicago Review of Books

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Gender Identity, Pop Culture Homage, & the Twenty-First-Century Western in “The Neon Hollywood Cowboy” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Matt Mitchell’s debut collection of poetry, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, examines identity through the eyes of its eponymous archetype, depicting a nomadic traveler, saddled to his horseback, slipstreaming every passing moment into another literary confessional. The Neon Hollywood Cowboy represents an alter ego for Mitchell to funnel his own story through. An alter ego … Read more