Our music critics have already chosen the 40 best music shows this week, but now it’s our arts critics’ turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Game of Chefs to Bon Appétit! The Julia Child Operetta, and from Japanese garden-set butoh performances at Wandering and Wondering to the opening of Re:definition 2019: The Latinx Diaspora. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton: Shapes of Native Nonfiction
It makes all the sense in the world for Elissa Washuta—an erstwhile fixture of the Seattle literary scene who’s now flourishing in Ohio—to use craft as a way to shape this fantastic anthology of 27 Native American essays. In her own work, Washuta is known for wrapping her personal experiences and private theories around found forms, such as popular television scripts and reverse timelines. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, she and Theresa Warburton use concepts from the art of basket weaving to coil and plait these coiled and plaited stories together. The book offers a collection of work from new and more established writers, including Stephen Graham Jones (Mapping the Interior and about a million others), Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries), Billy-Ray Belcourt (a Griffin Poetry Prize winner and author of NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field), and scholar Kim TallBear. RICH SMITH
