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Aug 4, 2026
Artists have been reimagining The Odyssey for as long as it’s existed. During the early centuries of the first millennium BCE, the poets of ancient Greece traveled to...
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Jul 21, 2026
Is there any subject that fiction cannot address? From its beginnings as a form, the novel has dealt with love and hate, war and peace, courage and cowardice, boredom and...
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Jul 7, 2026
Who gets to be an artist? Or rather: who gets to be called one? These and other questions are present but unarticulated in ‘American Folk Art’ at the Museum of Modern Art...
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Apr 28, 2026
What will it take to be fulfilled by life? Love, perhaps, or community, power, or professional success. At different points in my life I believed that having my work published would...
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Mar 13, 2026
What do you listen for in a great movie score? An iconic theme, perhaps, or a meaningful leitmotif that ties the film together. Maybe you want something innovative, compositions that...
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Mar 10, 2026
Coiled at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a shadowy club committed to the “racial purification” of the American populace....
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Feb 12, 2026
“The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.” Thomas Merton wrote...
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Jan 19, 2026
In Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning Sound of Falling (2025), a large stone farmhouse in the Altmark region of Germany witnesses the lives—and...
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Jan 2, 2026
Every year, I set myself a reading challenge. These are sometimes small—read more poetry; read older books—and sometimes quite large. More than a decade ago, I spent an...
Aug 4, 2026Artists have been reimagining The Odyssey for as long as it’s existed. During the early centuries of the first millennium BCE, the poets of ancient Greece traveled to...
Jul 21, 2026Is there any subject that fiction cannot address? From its beginnings as a form, the novel has dealt with love and hate, war and peace, courage and cowardice, boredom and...
Jul 7, 2026Who gets to be an artist? Or rather: who gets to be called one? These and other questions are present but unarticulated in ‘American Folk Art’ at the Museum of Modern Art...
Apr 28, 2026What will it take to be fulfilled by life? Love, perhaps, or community, power, or professional success. At different points in my life I believed that having my work published would...
Mar 13, 2026What do you listen for in a great movie score? An iconic theme, perhaps, or a meaningful leitmotif that ties the film together. Maybe you want something innovative, compositions that...
Mar 10, 2026Coiled at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a shadowy club committed to the “racial purification” of the American populace....
Jan 19, 2026In Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning Sound of Falling (2025), a large stone farmhouse in the Altmark region of Germany witnesses the lives—and...