The opera’s three-and-a-half-hour running time has been cut to an Ozempic-thin ninety minutes, and the exquisite Italian ...

The dream in literature must be a region of wonder, separate from yet reflexive to the rest of the text. It must be the dream ...

The artist and writer Joe Brainard and the poet James Schuyler, both central figures in the New York School of poets and ...

As told to Marcel Sauvage in Le Vésinet, France, 1930   The Netherlands What I like about success, Monsieur Sauvage, is the ...

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. She is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and ...

Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend. This was the evening: Haltingly, it slowed our ...

In middle school, when no one was home, I would lay facing Binky as he lay flat on his side on the carpet. ‘I love you,’ I would say.” ...

There is a painting by the Eritrean American artist Ficre Ghebreyesus named Solitary Boat in Red and Blue. It is a painting I find utterly compelling, utterly seductive—perhaps because I love the ...

My earliest memories are of my own interest in perfection. The supreme object of my interest, of my deepest intellectual and sensual love, was a product designed and manufactured with the express aim ...

After that, there emerge two major streams of philosophy that shape medieval philosophy, and then Western philosophy in general. These two major branches of philosophy are, of course, Neo-Platonism ...