Culture, Digested: The PhD in Creativity
Jessa Crispin in The Culture We Deserve: One of the more interesting asides in the extensive coverage of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts’ shutdown has been the information that in the past few
Monday Poem: ‘How to be Happy in 101 Days’ by Tishani Doshi
Adore stone. Learn to manoeuvreagainst the heat of things. Shouldyou see butterflies gambol in the air,resist the urge to pinch their wings.Look for utilitarian values of violence.Use the knife lustily:
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Alan Watts on Transcending Yourself
The following is a brief segment of a lecture Alan Watts gave on The Psychedelic Experience: In a way, all consciousness-expanding drugs have something to do with death. Why? Because
Why Medieval Philosophers Cared if Animals Made Mistakes
Sam Alma at Aeon Magazine: You are standing on a boat that is drifting down a placid river. You watch the trees on the shore glide along. For a moment,
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Sabina Suey: The Valencian Postwoman Who Hid the Holy Grail in Her Sofa
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, everyone from Spanish revolutionaries to M.I.6 agents wanted to steal the Holy Grail. Little did they know that a Valencian postwoman had hidden
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Sunday Poem: ‘Oceans’ by Belle
An entire sea of waterCant sink a shipUnless the water gets insideYou sunk me.You got inside my being,Wrapped your smile around my heart.And crushed me.I cant breathe anymore.Waves of nausea
Documenting ‘How to Rob a Bank’
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Stephen Robert Morse and Seth Porges, the producers and directors of How to Rob a Bank. Streaming now
Saturday Poem: ‘At the End’ by Maaz Bin Bilal
How can one ever begin at the end?—Death is regeneration at the end Waiz lives piety, prays five times a dayHe knows not the joys of sin at the end
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Jazz Remains the Sound of Modernism
Ed Simon at The Millions: There are two irrefutable axioms that can be made about jazz. The first is that jazz is America’s most significant cultural contribution to the world;
Friday Poem: Digging
Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father, digging. I look
Thursday Poem: ‘Poem for the Father’
And it was thenthat with a tongue dead and cold in the mouthhe sang the song others allowed him to singin this world of obscene gardens and shadowscoming at unseemly
Wednesday Poem: Defeat by Kahlil Jibran
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my