May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, ...

The science behind burn-in is grotesque: picture swarms of electrons like locusts flinging themselves at the thin phosphor ...

Nicole Wittenberg has painted a variety of subjects over the last fifteen years, but two predominate: lush and lyrical landscapes, often of places where water meets land—generally unpopulated, but ...

Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...

through the café-window créped in powder-smoke? The bill for the new farce reads Sleepers Awake.

Wrought on you by surprise.

“Even Saint Teresa said, ‘I can pray better when I’m comfortable.’ I don’t think living in cellars and starving is any better for an artist than it is for anybody else.” ...

June, 1923: The French paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin was traveling on mule back in the vastness beyond the Great Wall, west of Peking. He saw it from a distance: the Ordos, the inner Mongolian ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

A book is always about the world, and happy people don’t have time for “about.” 14. Through writing, if you’re lucky, you ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand ...