The Deep End

The Deep End is a semi-regular column curated and edited by Ryan-Ashley featuring film, book, and art reviews and interviews. Send your pitches to [email protected].

Equitable Access and Meaningful Support for The Arts

The arts isn’t optional in a free democracy (here’s something you can do)

by Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney/October 28, 2025/| The Deep End

(jump to action letter) Since moving to Portland, I have seen art organizations close, arts funding diminish, and a focus on equitable access to creative opportunities, recede in favor of individual fundraising efforts. Beyond Portland, I have seen beloved literary journals and art organizations and small creative businesses, lose funding across the country. What can…

SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI

by Jaime Fountaine/October 16, 2025/| The Deep End

As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi and I make very different types of art, we’ve both tasked ourselves with creating small universes.

Group dynamics, intimacy between strangers, and rehearsing for loss: A review and conversation between Autumn Joi Knight and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney

by Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney/August 21, 2025/| The Deep End

It’s Outside the Paper: In conversation with Samiya Bashir on her poetry collection, I Hope This Helps

by Naya Clark/July 17, 2025/| The Deep End

Interview by Naya Clark Samiya Bashir’s critically-lauded, multimodal poetry collection, I Hope This Helps (2025, NightBoat Books), begins with a quote from actress Niecy Nash-Bett’s 2024 Emmy award acceptance speech: “I want to thank me for believing in me …” This bold tribute, which echoes Snoop Dogg’s words six years prior during his Hollywood Walk…

THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU, a Review from The Deep End

by Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney/March 20, 2025/| The Deep End

I was drinking coffee and reading The Organization is Here to Support You. It was the morning, which meant my patience for bullshit was still relatively high. I had been reading it since the night before—tearing through it, really—and had just gotten to page 87 where the book’s most loathsome character, Devin Brault, made a…

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