Culture

The job of the artist is to see the world differently, to redefine it, ignite it, and give the audience the opportunity for understanding.

The Marais Review brings together these observations of the world through essays and reviews of why we think, how we eat, what we hear, and where we drink.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

– Virginia Woolf

All the libraries shut down before I could stockpile. I don’t even remember what I was reading “before” COVID-19. After false starts from various bookcases I finally reached up to the stack of books that I keep on the bedpost above my cervical pillow. The books I mean to read but don’t. Perhaps it was inevitable that in the time of a pandemic I would finally reach for “Mrs. Mike.”