Ursula: Issue 17

Issue 17 of Ursula arrives in the spirit of the Venice Biennale, featuring a cover conversation between Lorna Simpson and American musician and composer Jason Moran, a longtime collaborator. Published on the occasion of Simpson’s exhibition 'Third Person' at Venice’s Punta della Dogana, the issue also includes a deeply personal remembrance of Björn Roth by Iwan Wirth; the third installment of our series ‘The Art That Made Me,’ with Ekow Eshun and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Alissa Bennett on the powerfully unsettling work of Carol Rama. Elsewhere in the issue, Harriet Lloyd-Smith explores the poetic histories of Julianknxx; Louisa Buck examines the ecological activism of artist duo Cooking Sections; Greg de Cuir Jr considers the underrecognized genius of Serbian director Želimir Žilnik; Claudia Rankine presents an exclusive preview of her forthcoming novel Triage; David Rimanelli contributes a new poem and Jonathan Cott talks with historian Stephen Greenblatt about the playwright Christopher Marlowe and the perils of the Elizabethan literary scene.