Email Author Alexis Soloski

2005 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• A Novel Plot by Kate Atkinson Makes for Unwieldy Drama

  published April 19, 2005

  What won't a New Yorker stomach for a killer deal on a Victorian brownstone? Dry rot and wet rot? No problem. An infestation of deathwatch beetle?... More >>

• Theater

  published April 12, 2005

  In the 1984 Smiths song "Suffer Little Children," lead singer Morrissey lugubriously intones, "Oh Manchester, so much to answer for."... More >>

• Darkness Invisible

  published April 5, 2005

  Recalling her Paris expat years, Djuna Barnes wrote, "I used to be rather gay and silly and bright and . . . wasted a lot of the time. I used to... More >>

• A Complex Elektra Via a Polish Company Fluent in Attic Signs

  published April 5, 2005

  "Muscles!" the chorus cries, and each member flexes prodigiously. "Beauty!" they call, and cup their bosoms. "Fugitive! Orestes! Misery! Elektra!... More >>

• Dark Rides

  published March 29, 2005

  On a DUMBO stage, Kate Valk—doe-eyed and louche-lipped—stares out from half a dozen monitors. In her gloved hand she clutches a... More >>

• Oh Boy

  published March 22, 2005

  In Samoa, boys raised as girls are known as fa'afafine. On Madagascar they're called sekrata, among the Sioux wintke, and in... More >>

• Birds of a Feather

  published March 1, 2005

  With the arrival of spring, city bird-watchers can catch glimpses of thrushes, warblers, perhaps even a pileated woodpecker. Yet you needn't be an... More >>

• Theater

  published February 22, 2005

  Research in the field of gelotology, the physiological study of humor, has determined that laughter may indeed be the best medicine. A good guffaw... More >>

• Married Puppets Punch and Kick and Scream in The Flesh

  published February 8, 2005

  If seven years of marriage result in an itch, three centuries of nuptial bliss conjure a far more nagging affliction. The Confessions of Punch... More >>

• A Call To Arms

  published February 1, 2005

  At first it seems a problem of scale. Standing just over six feet, British actor Mat Fraser has long legs, a lengthy torso, a handsome face with... More >>

• The Friends of Mr. Cairo

  published January 25, 2005

  Those finding themselves in San Francisco with a spare three hours might embark on the Dashiell Hammett walking tour. Former Hammett residence 408... More >>

• Books

  published January 25, 2005

  Funny, she doesn't bake like a femme fatale . . . Alice, the heroine maudite of Megan Abbott's debut novel, "made a raspberry-coconut jelly... More >>

• Up From Down Under

  published January 18, 2005

  In a hallway at Performance Space 122, Melbourne native Vallejo Gantner searches for a surreptitious place to store the boxes ringing him. These... More >>

• Pursued by a Teddy Bear

  published January 4, 2005

  Have we textual exegesists been wrong all these years? Should Shakespeare's famed stage direction really have read, "Exit pursued by teddy bear?"... More >>

• Delving Into Contemporary Facts So Strange They Provoke Fictional Games

  published January 4, 2005

  On January 26, 1998, President Clinton looked into a television camera, shook his finger authoritatively, and enunciated, "I did not have sexual... More >>