Category: Arts

Harmonium Rocks (Video)

Tajdar e haram: A soulful performance by a street singer with harmonium (also called Reed…

How to cultivate creativity as an adult, according to an expert

Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon: Creativity is an essential element of the human condition. Yet unlike…

Best Political Cartoons Weekending May 1, 2022

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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The…

Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond

by Pranab Bardhan: Gérard Roland came to Berkeley only around the turn of this century….

Tell Me About the Blues

By Bill Benzon: What is the blues? It is a mood, a feeling, a sensibility….

Political Cartoons Weekending April 24, 2022

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A Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions

Maria Rubin in The NY Review of Books: IT IS DAUNTING to write a biography of…

Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art

Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger…

A Gentleman in Moscow (ماسکو میں ایک شخصیت)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility— A Gentleman in Moscow…

Abstract Artists and Old Friends

Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam & William T Williams — all of them are key figures…

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. But liberal imperialism…