Grand Street Memory

Grand Street's spring issue will turn its eclectic eye on questions of memory and forgetting in social, emotional and national frameworks. It will also inaugerate a series of regular columns by columnists Edward W. Said, Mark Danner, Rebecca Solnit, Victor Pelevin and others. Featured in this issue: Teresa Allen interviews death-row inmate Kelley O'Donnell, Hilton Als revisits jazz patroness the Baroness de Koenigswarter, a retrospective of work by artist Tony Smith, and journalist Ruben Martinez on life near the Mexican border. Also in this issue, art portfolios of by Peter Nagy, Navin Rawanchaikul and Meyer Vaisman.