Category: Arts
When Art Is All That Remains
Wars and crises tend to reveal the true, unrivaled power of art, which is often the last redoubt of freedom in the face of the suffering that such politicians cause.
Monday Poem: Song of a Masjid’s Floor
I sangto atoms emptied in a mother’s feetreplicating the prosody of Adhān itselfthe dust trembling…
Sunday Poem: The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I Had a Lot of Feelings.
I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and…
The Death of our Era by D.H. Lawrence
Our era is dyingyet who has killed it?Have we, who are it? In the middle…
Is there a ‘Seventh Generation’ of Chinese film-makers?
Leo Robson in Sidecar: It has not materialised in any formal sense, and the term…
Monday Poem: Bahadur Shah Zafar
On Seeing Bahadur Shah ZafarThe Last Mughal Emperor1775 – 1862 The king is a subject—A…
Sunday Poem: Airborne Hope
by Vivian Huang (age 15): a contrapuntal poem dedicated to my family. —from 2024 Rattle Young…
Saturday Poem: The Moods Of Music
I hear flowing notes.smooth and soothing cool.They rush through my earsand filter my brainof all…
Friday Poem: I Crane My Neck
My view is of nothingother than the black dot of Icarushung beneath the canopy of…
Six Reasons Why Artists Should Avoid Politics
The artist has access to a certain truth, a truth that is less about morality than it is about . . . what, exactly?