Lisa Locascio

Articles

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  Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"

  Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church....

  Lisa LocascioSep 21, 2013
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  My Bolaño Archive

  1. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the papers and personal effects of the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) exhibit “Bolaño Archive. 1977–2003,” the ...

  Lisa LocascioJun 23, 2013

• A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s “The Sad Passions”

  ARTISTIC PREOCCUPATION with the consequences of teenage maternity is among the most vibrant geists of our current zeit, from 17 Girls, 2011’s somnolent French reimagining of the 2008 Massachusetts “pregnancy pact,” to MTV’s inescapable Teen Mom franchise. And although ...

  Lisa LocascioJun 13, 2013
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  The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of God

  WHAT IS IT about communities of the religiously devout, particularly practitioners of anachronistic ways of life, that so transfix us? Reading Rebecca Miller’s novel Jacob’s Folly, with its centuries-spanning look at Jewish life, I thought often of ...

  Lisa LocascioMay 21, 2013
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  Lizard Brains: On "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"

  FOR SEVERAL YEARS, beginning when I was 11 or 12, I wanted a pet iguana badly. In my favorite comic strip, Bill Amend’s FoxTrot, 10-year-old Jason Fox had an iguana named Quincy, who looked like a cousin of the ...

  Lisa LocascioNov 18, 2012

• Waking from the Dream of Alaska

  For Melinda Moustakis, Alaska is not a region of the imagination; it is a bracingly real place....

  Lisa LocascioDec 3, 2011