Rebecca Bengal

About

Rebecca Bengal is a contributing editor at this magazine. Strange Hours, a collection of her writings on photography, will be published by Aperture in 2023. Her short fiction accompanies Kristine Potter’s monograph Dark Waters, also forthcoming from Aperture, and her essay “Repo Man” is the afterword to the latest edition of Charles Portis’s Norwood (Overlook Press).

Articles

Issue 103, Winter 2018

That Chord!

Etta Baker rose before the sun to play guitar, an hour every morning.

By Rebecca Bengal

Issue 115, Winter 2021

Country Boy Gone City

The El Grotto is a neighborhood bar—beer, wine, records on the jukebox, fights on the regular, and sometimes, guns drawn.

By Rebecca Bengal

Issue 116, Spring 2022

Coda for Winfred Rembert

Working with a bevel, a pear shader, and an assortment of tools, some of which he made by hand, Rembert carved and rendered the tales of his life.

By Rebecca Bengal

Issue 119, Winter 2022

Will the Real Mr. Heartache Please Stand Up and Cry?

Paycheck carries the melody to a place that feels at once too much, too obvious, and yet totally startling and stunning.

By Rebecca Bengal