Category: Arts
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…
Alan Watts on Transcending Yourself
The following is a brief segment of a lecture Alan Watts gave on The Psychedelic…
Why Medieval Philosophers Cared if Animals Made Mistakes
Sam Alma at Aeon Magazine: You are standing on a boat that is drifting down…
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…
Sunday Poem: ‘Oceans’ by Belle
An entire sea of waterCant sink a shipUnless the water gets insideYou sunk me.You got…
Documenting ‘How to Rob a Bank’
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Stephen Robert Morse…
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…
Jazz Remains the Sound of Modernism
Ed Simon at The Millions: There are two irrefutable axioms that can be made about…
Thursday Poem: ‘Poem for the Father’
And it was thenthat with a tongue dead and cold in the mouthhe sang the…
Wednesday Poem: Defeat by Kahlil Jibran
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;You are dearer to me than a thousand…
Tuesday Poem: Blonde Bombshell
By Lynn Emanuel at Poetry Foundation: Love is boring and passé, all that old baggage,the…