Emma R. Cohen


is a writer and dancer from Chicago. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, and BOMB, among other outlets.  As a performer she has worked with artists including Gillian Walsh, Neal Medlyn, and Ligia Lewis. She is a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University.

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Recent + Upcoming


Writing


Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium” in The Brooklyn Rail

Solidarity, Not Sameness” (a review of Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast) in the Times Literary Supplement

Interview with Hannah Levene on Greasepaint in BOMB

In Chicago, Keeping the Heritage of Black Dance Moving” in the New York Times

Jenn Shapland’s Thin Skin” in The Brooklyn Rail

Performing the Patient: On Emily Wells’s ‘A Matter of Appearance’” in LA Review of Books

Sick History: On Kate Zambreno’s ‘To Write As If Already Dead’” in Cleveland Review of Books

“‘The Inexplicable Facets of Living in a Human Body’: An Interview with Emma Bolden“ in Hazlitt

Performance


Friday Night Lights, Gillian Walsh, Dia, Nov. 16, 2024