The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person Hilton Als Considers the Influence of Class and Queerness in the Life and Work of a Gay American Poet A number of the people I first shared my love of James Merrill’s writing with are gone now,... See more
I went to Paris looking for love. I was not the first person ever to do so. My love had lived in the French capital as a student in the mid-eighties. Now it was 1993 or so, and even though our affair was over—it had lasted barely a year—I went looking... See more
"Moussakoo" (1968). Tom Lloyd's light-based abstract art reveals more about who he was than figurative work would have. On weekends we'd take the bus into the city—my father, my younger brother, and I. We lived in Brooklyn then, in Flatbush; this was in... See more
On certain days, I'd cut school and head over to the Museum of Modern Art to dream awhile. This was in the mid-nineteen-seventies, and my high school—then called the High School for Performing Arts—was on West Forty-sixth Street. I lived in Brooklyn, ... See more
