Cynthia Payne
Cynthia Payne's writing has appeared most recently in the Paris Review Daily, The Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares, and The Women’s Review of Books. She lives in Brooklyn.
- Hidden in Plain Sight
Seated female figure with tablet on lap Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian Ur III period, ca. 2112–2004 BC. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Vorderasiatisches Museum. Photo by Olaf M. Teßmer. AT A MOMENT when it is difficult to imagine human existence fifty years from now, it can be an enormous pleasure, even a revelation,
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023
- Stranger in a Strange Land
Louise Bourgeois, Fallen Woman (Femme Maison), 1946-47. Private collection, New York. Louise Bourgeois, Femme-Maison, 1946-47. Private collection, New York. I DIDN’T KNOW a painting could make me feel as if I were falling. It happened for the first time when I saw an untitled 1948 painting by Louise Bourgeois
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FALL 2022