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A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.”
The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.
Cruel, indiscreet, misanthropic and miserable, columnist Jeffrey Bernard nevertheless produced some bracing and scabrously funny journalism.
Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.
How individual and civilisational identities collapse.
Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption.
Mixing aesthetics and activism does a disservice to both.
A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.
Next time, one hopes, James Cameron will focus as much on the story he tells as the means he uses to tell it.
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.
The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research.
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.
A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.