The Decisive Ones
In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, a team of reporters placed its operation in the hands of a trusted Iraqi driver. In an exceptional memoir, Thanassis Cambanis reports how it all went wrong for Sa’ad al-Azawi — and for Iraq.
Everything in Motion at Once
Painter Roger White corresponds with us about beauty, detachment, the Brita filter, and all that can’t be distilled about painting.
Defect
In a sequence of prose poems about the young man who defected from the Soviet bloc and came to live with her childhood family, Jessica Fisher reflects on the ways political landscapes map themselves onto individual lives.
Battle Creek
“My obsession with Marisa Snow as a possible target began in Advanced English…” In Ann Stewart‘s novella, a teenage gay bashing in Michigan’s Cereal City opens out to an exploration of rage, first love, and consequence.
Marc Baruth
The art of history combined with contemporary photographic assemblage is explored with photographer Marc Baruth in a discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery.
The Blue Word
Laura Christina Dunn summons memories of a beached whale and a lost love, wondering how much of how we live can be sustained.
selections from Holding Company
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Major Jackson uses a repeating form to make room for a roster of desires, as well as the craft they foster and fill.
Notes on Aura Portraits
Anna Von Mertens walks us through her hand-dyed and stitched interpretations of the Mona Lisa, Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, and others guided by the principles of aura photography.
Direction Nowhere
Forty years ago this month, Neil Young and Miles Davis shared a bill at a theater in New York City. Nate Chinen looks at two stars whose orbits passed tantalizingly close.
4D
At Length talks to musician and composer Matthew Shipp about his new record 4D, his influential work as curator of the groundbreaking and genre-smashing Blue Series for Thirsty Ear Records and his often difficult relationship with the jazz establishment.
The Residue of God & After the Waiting Room
In two new poems, Kimiko Hahn talks to one of Elizabeth Bishop’s best-known works and traces a history of beauty, investigation, authority and error reaching to the present.
Dark Adaptation: Milan, 1510-11
Da Vinci’s sketches of his stillborn child, still in utero, frame an expectant father’s thoughts on the desire for knowledge and the persistent expectation that something closer to the center remains to be seen. By David Hawkins.
James Pomerantz
Photography inspirations, the Caucasus and treading the halls in school, are the subject of photographer James Pomerantz‘s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their latest feature for At Length.
Owl Wolf Ghost
A host of creatures stalks the outer reaches of intimacy as Paula Bohince conjures human and inhuman, natural and supernatural wills.
Finch (Original Soundtrack)
At Length joins novelist Jeff Vandermeer and rock band Murder by Death’s Adam Turla in a conversation about the latter’s haunting soundtrack to Vandermeer’s darkly fantastic detective novel, Finch, the third and final volume in his award-winning Ambergris Trilogy.