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.
From More Intelligent Life: A review of the “Model as Muse” exhibit at the Met. As the curatorial notes put it, models are those “whose elegant poses and gestures” evoke the attitudes of the day. The show makes clear that this is partly something a model can control and partly something she is simply, ineffably, [...]
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From the LA Times: The Truth About Writers. But we writers have a secret. We don’t spend much time writing. There. It’s out. Writers, by and large, do not do a great deal of writing. We may devote a large number of hours per day to writing, yes, but very little of that time is [...]
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From Splice Today: Blogs need to get together if they ever hope to replace the newspaper. If blogs are to fill a void left by newspapers they need to go one step further: get a little Marxist and organize. This is actually already happening-blogs and bloggers that were at first members of a community are [...]
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From Bookforum: Appreciations of ice cream and cake celebrate the deliciously fattening over the guiltily consumed fake. We also, of course, eat an incredible amount of fake ice cream. Neither author offers a figure, but in a world where 1921′s hit ice-cream novelty, the Eskimo Pie, has been replaced by the Slender Pie (artificially sweetened, [...]
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A Novice’s Approach to Viewing Art and Thrust Projects’ UNHEIM By Christy Tennant Simple steps to view and appreciate art with humility and understanding. Arancello, orHow One Italian Combats The Summer Heat By Josh Cacopardo Summer getting you down? Make some arancello and celebrate the weather. Fashion Designer AcademicInterview with Made By Rachel By Lindsay [...]
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From The Atlantic: Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade. Unlike its rivals, The Economist has been unaffected by the explosion of digital media; if anything, the digital revolution has cemented its relevance. The Economist has become an arbiter of right-thinking opinion (free-market right-center, if you want to be technical about it; [...]
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From the Boston Globe: Why Going for Another Degree Right Now Isn’t As Safe As It Seems. But let’s face it, introspection doesn’t pay the student loan bill. Recently, Harvard University held a seminar on how to handle rejection. Good idea. Learning how to innovate and cope is a skill that will become as crucial [...]
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America’s Rebellion Against the Car The Philosophy Behind Making Times Square a Public Space By Brian Watkins Times Square was recently turned into a pedestrian mall. What might this mean for the future of American cities – and the automobile? Bee Stung By Kevin Gosa Why we like spelling bees, and what to do if [...]
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No Country for Old Mades By Alisa Harris No Country for Old Men and Made of Honor assault our sense of justice in very different ways. Tell Me Our Story By Jenni Simmons The Fall is a film of striking beauty that tells an imaginative story of truth. Endless Summer Cinema By Jonathan Fitzgerald Is [...]
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From the New Yorker: Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing Be Taught? People who take creative-writing workshops get course credit and can, ultimately, receive an academic degree in the subject; but a workshop is not a course in the normal sense-a scene of instruction in which some body of knowledge is transmitted by means of [...]
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