Criticism

Adele Voss

Adele Voss writes criticism on performance, domestic craft and the ethics of looking. She thinks a review should leave the work larger than she found it, and she is suspicious of any sentence that arrives already proud of itself.

Pieces: 3
Issues: 04, 02, 01

Pieces

Criticism · Issue 04

The Grammar of an Empty Table

Adele Voss

Odile Marchetti’s chamber piece Supper for Nobody lasts forty minutes and serves nothing. The restraint is not a trick. It is an argument.

4 min read

Interviews · Issue 02

Criticism as Hospitality

Mateo Ibarra with Adele Voss

Mateo Ibarra asks Adele Voss whether a review can be a way of making room, and she answers without letting him off the question.

Excerpt · 17 min in print

Criticism · Issue 01

Beginners, and the Courage of Them

Adele Voss

Adele Voss defends early work — not as promise, but as a kind of accuracy that expertise sometimes sands away.

Excerpt · 12 min in print

Adele Voss

Pieces

The Grammar of an Empty Table

Criticism as Hospitality

Beginners, and the Courage of Them

A short note when the new issue is set.

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