Victoria Wiet is a contributing editor at Public Books. Formerly an assistant professor at DePauw University, she is currently pursuing an MSLIS degree with a focus on performing arts archives. Along with Public Books, her writing about film, queer culture, and the legacies of nineteenth-century theatre & fiction has appeared in venues such as Literary Hub and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is currently completing a book about the commercial stage’s impact on erotic life in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Writing on Public Books
Perfect Recordings of Lost Voices
The film itself is warning you: No matter how beautifully shot, Jolie sitting at a table is not Maria Callas.
Futures of Postimperial Glasgow
Britain’s “Second City” profited from shipbuilding and the slave trade, but has slowly declined for decades. What should Glasgow’s future hold?
Remembering Bowie: A Makeshift Père Lachaise at Lafayette and Houston
Anyone walking down Manhattan’s Houston Street on January 13 might have had some idea about what to expect upon reaching …












