Olivia Giovetti
When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
- Reposted by Olivia GiovettiA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Okay *that* I wasn't expecting
- In 2023, Leon Botstein couched Jeffrey Epstein as an embarrassing footnote. The newly-released documents tell a slightly different story.
- You have to admire her for posting it to her own YouTube
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- I don't think it's a coincidence that the new production the Met is postponing — as it moves towards a Saudi deal — is Khovanshchina. (Gift article h/t @musicologyduck.bsky.social)
- This was such a joy to work on last year. Big thanks to Megan Evershed for the opportunity and for making the piece what it is and to Muyassar Kurdi for agreeing to have her work featured and answering all of my questions about it (and to Ethan Philbrick for helping to verbalize the unverbalizable).
- I hate this. I hate AI-generated audio versions of articles. I hate that both are being used by institutions supposedly keeping the flame of media literacy and craft alive.
- Every Verdi opera ever
- Oh my days
- Whether we go to see a live performance as a respite from reality or a response to it, we can’t Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ourselves out of knowing where many artists now stand in relation to the rest of the world.
- "Arguably."
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- I think it should be acceptable to blow an airhorn when everyone else is violating the sanctity of the Quiet Car.
- I’m all for freedom of the press but I think the NYT Editorial Board should stick a sock in it when it comes to moral clarity or international law.
- "By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
- Well, at least we got that momentary flash of hope and a performance by Mandy Patinkin.
- Somehow this silly little post that I wrote in 15 minutes on my phone before taking my dog out for a dump has become the most popular post on my silly little Substack.
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- I was just speaking with my former playwriting professor about trying to write a memoir of my father without mentioning my mother. (These windmills aren’t going to tilt at themselves.) Realized it was in large part my allergy to the inevitable Play-about-the-Family.
- Merry Christmas I cut the Folger’s incest ad to Act I of Walküre in the name of comparative literature.
- Hedwig and the Angry Grinch
- Konzept: Wozzeck
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- "This may be the last time you ever see me because… there's only a couple of us that are speaking out in this hard way." Rob Reiner on CNN, September 2025
- Reposted by Olivia GiovettiAhmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
- I can’t believe the first night of Hanukkah fell on Muntadhar al-Zaidi Day this year and I didn’t think to make a shoe menorah. Please tell me one of you did.
- My dad had tattoos of Woody Woodpecker and the Roadrunner (he liked to say he had two birds and a pecker). I knew my husband was related to Mel Blanc, but it was only recently that we both learned that cousin Mel voiced both Woody and the Roadrunner.
- It‘s not the dumbest thing the NYT has done lately but still… this is a baffling photo crop especially given the (awful) story.
