Journalist Stuart Jeffries Takes on Everything
Stuart Jeffries’ Everything, All the Time, Everywhere pins down the condition that governs our existence as blatantly and crudely as a force of nature.
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The Enigma of Russian Dada
If art is about the fostering and maintenance of traditions, then the Russians were proposing a kind of anti-art. An exploration of the exhibition catalog, Russian Dada 1914-1924.
The Melancholy Condition of the World: The Art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner knew that melancholy arises from our longing to connect with the world and our knowledge that it continually slips from our embrace.
On Satyajit Ray’s Make Believe World in The Hero
The Hero has deliciously surreal nightmares of obvious symbolism -- skeletons under piles of money, a nightclub in a spectral forest -- and these seem to give Satyajit Ray and Subrata Mitra special chiaroscuro joy.
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David S. Brown
In a comprehensive new biography, the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined in historical, literary, and sociological perspectives.
To Each Her Own Avocado Toast: Philosophers at Table
Philosophers at Table declares Cartesian dichotomies the ruin of food, with delicious results.