Jana Prikryl

Jana Prikryl’s third book of poems, Midwood, will be published this August. She is the executive editor of The New York Review of Books.

Nation Poetry

Home Movie Home Movie

Strewn across the floors their toys and things, a video cassette the dad had written “We used to have more of these” on, the kitchen in a state of high party, boxed cakes half eate…

Apr 5, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher

15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher 15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher

One of the creations of her and her husband’s artistic partnership was the seemingly perfect fusion of their visions.

Jun 22, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

To Tell of Bodies Changed

To Tell of Bodies Changed To Tell of Bodies Changed

Having desired little more than the arrival of the little more that arrives, outside our window a cypress of model proportions. Its patience seems to widen the nights we sleep in R…

Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

As They Live: On Roman Vishniac

As They Live: On Roman Vishniac As They Live: On Roman Vishniac

How a photographer’s images of Jews were liberated from the lachrymose history he imposed upon them.

Apr 10, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

Letters Letters

Dwight MacDonald, Jana Prikryl

Jan 4, 2012 / Letters / Our Readers and Jana Prikryl

Erosion: On Errol Morris

Erosion: On Errol Morris Erosion: On Errol Morris

Why does Errol Morris cling to a model of documentary photography eighty years out of date?

Nov 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt

The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt The Dirty Halo: On Sarah Bernhardt

Robert Gottlieb's vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.

Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

Extravagant Disorder Extravagant Disorder

Miroslav Tichy's haphazard, eccentric photographs are disciplined, even rigorous--and indifferent to the claims of their female subjects.

Apr 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

Alice’s Wonderlands: On Alice Guy Blaché Alice’s Wonderlands: On Alice Guy Blaché

The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.

Jan 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

Fleeting Exchanges: Helen Levitt Remembered Fleeting Exchanges: Helen Levitt Remembered

Helen Levitt's idiosyncratic photographs.

Jul 15, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jana Prikryl

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