Well, it happened about three o’clock. The gentlemen were playing. There was the big stranger, as our men called him. The prince was there…
Read MoreElizabeth Bishop explored Brazil extensively, making trips down the Amazon, traversing the tropical rainforest with Aldous Huxley…
Read MoreIt works for the “alt-right” that relativism should prevail, although they bitterly denounce it – if truth is relative, then reality can be left to happen as inequality…
Read MoreRecalling how Kafka’s tale ends, with the gatekeeper closing the door of the Law as the protagonist expires, roaring in his ear that all along it was meant for him alone…
Read MoreThe pair fly to Japan where they discover the virtual world conjured via the internet does not reflect reality…
Read MoreIn reading bits and bobs of Deleuze, I came upon some pages in What is Philosophy? that cooly and accurately describe the artist’s experience…
Read MorePolitical indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction…
Read MoreAs the train approached the station it was the first thing she noticed. There through the window: a magenta pink haze of ground-level fog…
Read MoreOn the first of July, artists, curators, and art afficionados gathered at the gates of the Sharra landfill of Tirana to attend the inauguration of a public artwork by Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa…
Read MoreA parenthetical phrase (like this one) may refer to things outside of it, parts of the sentence it inhabits (say)…
Read MoreImportant as the soup is in To the Lighthouse it is never identified, never seen as “beautiful red soup” or “eternal” tomato soup…
Read MoreHow do we enter into the ritual time outside of time in which narrative unfolds?
Read MoreSpectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston…
Read MoreThe same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind…
Read MoreAlthough Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air…
Read MoreThe obvious righteousness of these online crusaders meant they rarely recognised themselves as the aggressors or bullies…
Read MoreWhy was the family heir sent abroad, often when still a teenager, at a time when travel was indisputably and widely acknowledged to be dangerous?
Read MoreHave they clocked our nocturnal ways that bite at kleptomaniac clockhands in our capitals?
Read MoreNewspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism…
Read MoreWho or what is Peter Pan? Peter stands for a deep psychological desire in all of us to return to childhood and escape into an earlier, freer state of being…
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