Does Bad Romance Lead to Great Art?
Is it only within the context of romantic unrest that the best art can be made?
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Author: Cody Delistraty
The Médine Question
A concert cancellation underscores the persistent conflation of French Islam and radical Islamic terror.
How Art in Outer Space Allows Us to Dream of a Cosmos Freed from Surveillance and Warfare
Artist Trevor Paglen’s plan to launch a sculpture into orbit has drawn criticism from certain astronomers, but are they missing the point?
The Art of Wanderlust
Should art be about depicting or creating an experience?
In Search of Futures Past
How Marcel Proust’s finances affected his writing.
V.S. Naipaul and the Impossibility of Going Home
A brilliant writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness.
On Coincidence
On meaningful coincidences and why unscientific beliefs can actually be entirely rational
