Category: Arts

Wednesday Poem: The Artist and His Shadow

He is unfit for this life, thisunduly managed era devoidof poesy and freedom, a timeof…

Hell is Necessary

by Shadi Hamid at Wisdom of Crowds: I’m thinking about hell (again). What can I…

Tuesday Poem: Confiding With a Hen

I tell her the rye truth.We sit in the morning,dew the soil staining.She cocks her head, I…

What Films and Literature Reveal About the Voice in Your Head

Shayla Love at Psyche: In a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002),Nicolas Cage, playing the…

Monday Poem: Close Call

I’m still not sure I really saw the car—shiny redon a day that was a…

Francis Ford Coppola Fears His $100m Opus Megalopolis May Never Reach Theaters

By Sam Wasson at Air Mail: I haven’t seen Megalopolis, the new, four-decades-in-the-making film by…

Sunday Poem: The Wild Animal

They knock over everything, boys and girls,hardly more than instruments waiting to be played;hardly more…

The Best of Photojournalism This Week

A flooded town, brawl in parliament, a boat, cold lava cascades, a prisoner at a…

Saturday Poem: The Double Image Redux

Turn the photo of your mother in its frameso she can’t tsk her tongue against her teeth:the…

Friday Poem: Insult to Injury

I find an old air gunand a can of ammodown in the basementin a cardboard…

Portrait of Artist Mansoora Hasan as a Young Woman

Dr. Azra Raza’s eloquent tribute to her beloved friend Mansoora Hasan, a Pakistani painter par…

May Be Even Build a Boat

Doug Stowe in The Hedgehog Review: A few years ago, when my daughter was a…