Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • In Praise of Shadows

    by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

    “The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”

  • The Novices of Lerna

    by Ángel Bonomini

    “The path of the people is a backward path that goes forward, in a time that comes from the future and will end in the past, because the time of our countrymen more than path is time, and more than time is path.”

  • Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Stills from The Rape of Europa, 2025

  • Any Person Is the Only Self

    by Elisa Gabbert

    “Anything you do every day—that’s your life.”

  • A Night at the Cabaret

    Directed by Kaitlyn Chantry (Longwood Players)

    Patrick Harris performs “Christmas Tips” from Co-op: The Musical
  • Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

    by Agnes Arnold-Forster

    “One of the most confounding things about nostalgia is not just its transformation from disease to emotion, but also its slow conversion from something associated with place, to a feeling connected to time.”

  • Some Like it Hot

    Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin / Music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Broadway in Boston)

    Curtain call at Some Like It Hot
  • Oedipus

    by Robert Icke, after Sophocles (Studio 54)

    Lesley Manville was explosive in this magnificent play, and also very persnickety about photos during curtain call.

  • Finding Dorothy Parker

    Compiled and directed by Douglas Carter Beane (Laurie Beechman Theatre)

    Anika Larsen, Jackie Hoffmann, Julie Halston, and Ann Harada perform
  • Art in Tune 2026

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Members of the Handel and Haydn Society perform