twilit

The majestic white steed in the title piece, “Death of a Rider,” rears up on a twilit beach, letting its rider tumble off like Icarus behind it.

Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.

In “A Night of Knowing Nothing” by Payal Kapadia, a fictional voice-over narration, chronicling the dissolve of the speaker’s inter-caste relationship, coalesces a series of twilit scenes of college life in India that range from nocturnal revels to protests against an increasingly repressive government.

Soth’s photograph in Wisconsin in 2002 of an illuminated gas pump stand, sited alongside a graveyard and beneath a mountain, could serve as a mordant pendant to Adams’s magnificent, twilit Hopper-esque picture of a similar mountainside facility that bears, with unintentional irony, the advertising banner, “Frontier.”

Down below, the hotel’s daytime pool party is coming to a bass-heavy, twilit close.