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Shahrzad Changalvaee

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Shahrzad Changalvaee‘s practice responds to sculpture in a vast field of media, including
installation, video, photography, text, performance as well as activism.
Through summoning, truncating, recalling and tokening, She makes works in a variety of
time-based …

You Will Never Be Forgotten

Book Review by Diana Valenzuela

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South. FSG Originals, 2020. $15, 257 pages.

 

Mary South’s short story collection You Will Never Be Forgotten begins with the line, “The Keiths are Keiths because they are not particularly handsome, not particularly …

Look

Book Review by Diana Valenzuela

Look by Zan Romanaff. Dial Books, 2020. $17.99, 366 pages.

Women experience objectification in film. You’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking, Of course. So many forms of media treat women as objects, most of us have known about …

Everyone

Fiction, Issue 44 by Diana Valenzuela

The moon starts to stalk Jonah and Sola when they meet under the gaze of the slasher club. The club is Sola’s thing because she only knits and dyes while watching cheesy horror films. She no longer apologizes for her …

The Leftovers

Book Review by Diana Valenzuela

The Leftovers, by Shaelyn Smith. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018. 232 pages, $16.

There are tons of reasons to read art criticism: you can learn about culture, formulate arguments, or anxiously over-prepare for a Tinder date with a …