Commentary
The White Plague uses dread to shock us into empathy for ourselves, to be alarmed by the fragility of our bodies as well as the resources and ethics of the medical system.
Read MoreTour de force? Not quite. Joycean? Perhaps in the way contemporary individuals overlap with ancient, mythical counterparts.
Read MoreMembers of anti-arts Right are incensed by the stimulus funding going to Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Arts. And they’re right.
Read MoreDoriot Anthony Dwyer was a virtuoso flutist, one who could coax brightly burnished tones out of the instrument.
Read MoreIt’s important at this time to keep our relationships going, even as we hunker down in fear behind four walls. Thankfully, “The Ultimate Foreplay List” is here.
It’s important at this time to keep our relationships going, even as we hunker down in fear behind four walls. Thankfully, “The Ultimate Foreplay List” is here.
Read More“The body is a curious monster, no place to live in, how could anyone feel at home there? Is it possible I can ever accustom myself to this place?”
Read MoreHow, frankly, could I help people engage with their inherent creative powers and feel just a little bit better?
Read MoreWall Street is getting a $1.5 trillion bailout (and counting). As usual, the arts, despite being a key economic engine, will not be so lucky.
Read MoreWhat makes this book so necessary is that these are writers willing to state realities that members of both parties prefer to keep under the rug.
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Cultural Commentary: Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
At a time when fear of the influenza was in danger of being deemed unpatriotic, art retreated to nationalism or escapism.
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