Many Restless Concerns

Elena Goukassian is an arts writer based in Brooklyn. She covers literature, art, theater, books, music, film, architecture, and dance. She’s also a huge fan of digging through archives and uncovering unusual histories. Her pieces have recently appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Artsy, BOMB Magazine, Poets &amp; Writers, and The Calvert Journal, among others.

Elena Goukassian

Failing to Find the Language of Pain: On Gayle Brandeis’s “Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Báthory Speak in Chorus”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Memories of the Future

The Many Explanations: On Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future”

Elena Goukassian is an arts writer based in Brooklyn. She covers literature, art, theater, books, music, film, architecture, and dance. She’s also a huge fan of digging through archives and uncovering unusual histories. Her pieces have recently appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Artsy, BOMB Magazine, Poets &amp; Writers, and The Calvert Journal, among others.