Category: Arts
How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula
Film curator, writer and academic Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst…
What We Owe the Future
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to…
Nayyara Noor Renders Faiz Poem on Former East Pakistan (Video)
Nayyara Noor renders her voice with music to the poem written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz…
Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than…
Genghis Khan and the Mongols
9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first…
Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty
Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for…
Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy
Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the…
Feeling is the Secret (1944)
Written in 1944, Feeling Is the Secret resounds with the full power of Neville Goddard’s…
Images That Could Be Album Covers
Story in pictures — could be album or book covers… FEATURED VIDEO: Curated by Irshad…
RETAIL GANGSTER: Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane!
Alexandra Jacobs at the NYT: The most famous TV ad in the Orwellian year of…
Anti-Liberal
Terry Eagleton in Sidecar [h/t: Leonard Benardo]: A well-known member of the British left once…