Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years until accepting a full-time faculty position at The King's College. She is also associate editor of Comment. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appears in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Prism, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
Out of the Classroom, Into the Museum By Tom Alberti Experiencing the museum in the framework of “go and see,” not “go and check-mark.” Banana Split Cake: All-American Dessert By Lindsay Crandall A perfect no-bake summer dessert. The Case for the Much-Maligned Short Story By Kristyn Winters Why the short story, often ignored, deserves another [...]
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The Forecast: A Counterfeit Memoir About Everything You Know is True By Christy Tennant Caroline Ferdinandsen’s debut novel is about the familiar struggle of the ordinary. Getting Out By Colin Campbell A photo essay on the need to get beyond the Inside Me. Who was Neda Agha-Soltan? By Josh Cacopardo The Internet made Neda Agha-Soltan [...]
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From the Times Magazine: This Year’s Model. What’s immediately striking about clicking through the day-by-day photos on the Uniform Project is that two months into wearing the same thing every day, Matheiken is still way more stylish than you are. Part of this owes to the dress: while it’s in the basic mold of a [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal: Obama is changing the art on the White House walls. Their choices also, inevitably, have political implications, and could serve as a savvy tool to drive the ongoing message of a more inclusive administration. The Clintons received political praise after they selected Simmie Knox, an African-American artist from Alabama, to [...]
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From Vanity Fair: James Wolcott on Cultural Snobbery. In New York City (can’t speak for the other metro systems across this great land), every subway car is a rolling library, every ride an opportunity to spy on the reading tastes of fellow passengers and make snap judgments that probably wouldn’t hold up in court. Single [...]
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From the New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Anderson’s reference to people who “prefer to buy their music online” carries the faint suggestion that refraining from theft should be considered a mere preference. And then there is his insistence that the relentless downward pressure on prices represents an iron [...]
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From Good: The Joys of Absorption. Therein lies the key to my love of Power Yoga. I am told not to think. I am absorbed. This wondrous vacation from my head is also why I love writing. Sounds counter-intuitive, I know. But in an essay, “Why Write?” Alan Shapiro nails this addictive sensation mid-essay. He [...]
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How to Go to the Zoo By Matt Kirkland You don’t love the zoo. But you should. Here’s how. Connecting Refugees -One Bead at a Time By Rebecca Tirrell Talbot Refugee Beads and Village Gatherings help establish connections and make lasting changes in the life of refugees – and Americans. The High Line -Manhattan’s Newest [...]
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From Smithsonian Magazine: 35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry. As a farmer, he has shunned the use of tractors and plowed his land with a team of horses. As a poet, he has stood apart from the categories and controversies of the literary world, writing in language neither modern nor postmodern, making poems that [...]
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From The Believer: Dancing About Architecture. I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Since that first somewhat menacing reminder, I’ve heard the line frequently. At first blush, the claim is a [...]
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