Category: Arts

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…

Thursday Poem: Still I Rise

You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in…

Wednesday Poem: The Lonely Maiden

Beyond the sea, so calm and smooth.The tide so low and the wind so cool.Far…

A Toxic Substance Found in Beethoven’s Hair May Solve an Enduring Mystery

For 200 years, Ludwig van Beethoven’s deafness has puzzled experts and fans. But a recent…

An Essay By an Artist: Nero’s Violin

Judson Vereen at Poetic Outlaws: My encounters with critics are minimal, yet explosive. They will…

Tuesday Poem: The Ultimate Return

In the early dark before dawnI awake with a dreary feelingof death dripping from my…