"We Have Always Been Tragic" article in LA Review of Books Quarterly "Pop" issue, May 2020

WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TRAGIC: GREEK PLAYS FOR THE MODERN AGE by Johanna Skibsrud

“In the ancient Greek context, tragedies

employed masks — a performance

element that explicitly connected Greek

drama with the ritual practices from

which it emerged. For both theater and

ritual, masks created a liminal space in

which the borders between self and other,

the represented and the real, became

blurred and uncertain.”