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It’s All Feel, My Dear by Glenn Brady
Further Reading
DAISY FRIED’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
Possible and Impossible Truths About Reviewing Snottiness, contempt, unfairness, mockery, drollery, cruel wit: These are signs of vigor. So is generosity. Vigor in art creates vigor in criticism, not the other way around. Of course there should be negative reviewing. Anonymous reviews may be entertaining, but seem unlikely to be useful. We may enjoy seeing […]
Please Don’t Make Fun of God
by McKenzie Watson-Fore
This essay is written by MAYDAY magazine’s Critic in Residence This past summer, my partner Michael and I attended the wedding of two of our friends. One of them grew up in a Y2K prepper cult in Eastern Oregon. Her now-wife is a Dutch gynecologist. The four of us will often laugh about the mirrored […]
The Tender Satire of Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand
by Emily Brown
Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand is a Mormon movie, a twelve-minute short about a young missionary ashamed of his masturbation habit. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction. Despite its look into the cultural oddity of Mormonism, the film is relatable […]
