Andrew Chan
WHEN A WRITER undertakes a tribute to a pop star, where does the fan end and the critic begin? Can (or should) those roles be separated? In Stephanie Burt’s Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift, it’s clear that the author is writing about one of the great, defining loves of her […] 
EVEN A CURSORY GLANCE at the life of Joe Brainard reveals him to have been something of a genius of friendship. Since the artist and writer died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994 at the age of fifty-three, his legacy has been steadfastly tended to by a band of his contemporaries, who jump at the chance […]