meg shevenock

  • A New Favorite Heroine

    To do things and not die: is this not all our quest, distilled? At the Kenyon Review, Meg Shevenock breaks down just what makes Bianca from Roberto Bolaño’s A Little Lumpen Novelita so heroic.

  • It’s War and Peace, Charlie Brown

    For the Kenyon Review blog, Meg Shevenock writes about how Charlie Brown made her scared of Tolstoy’s classic and how she worked to overcome her fear.

  • Emily Dickinson’s Self-Portrait

    I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. For the Kenyon Review blog, Meg Shevenock…

  • A Dog Named Human

    For me, the perfect metaphor for rethinking our relationship to other species comes in the form of a dog named “Human,”owned and “curated” by French artist Pierre Huyghe, in his retrospective currently on view at LACMA. Ironically enough, such a…