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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreDenis Johnson sees that New Age thinking is a response to something very American, very late-twentieth-century—namely the precariousness of identity.
Read MoreThis time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.
Read MoreIn his profound new book Age of Anger, historian Pankaj Mishra finds the key to Trump-worship.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreWhy do critics like the New Yorker‘s Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreLope de Vega’s classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority — and won –deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.
Read MoreMatisse said his objects were his “working library,” sources to mine for formal qualities and their ability to evoke an emotional response.
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Literary Homage: Denis Johnson, American Dostoevsky
Denis Johnson’s spiritual vision was dark and more than a little scary but also supremely generous.
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