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from “The Fraying of America” [by Robert Hughes]
It took a while but Time got around to reporting Nietzsche's brainstorm announcement. The question mark is merely a rhetorical cover-up. And here are some thoughtful paragraphs from "The Fraying of America" by the magazine's…
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From a work in progress [by Mitch Sisskind]
The dry cleaning business was extremely important on my mother'sside of the family. My Uncle Nate hadn't been a combat soldier likeNorb Berlowitz, but Nate had still been in the army during the war. He was assigned to a…
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The Great Paradox [by Lionel Trilling]
"Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the object of our pity, then of…
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“Grafitti” [by Lisa Gorton]
Lisa Gorton is the former poetry editor of the Australian Book Review and the author of three award winning collections of poetry: Press Release, Hotel Hyperion, and Empirical, and the novel The Life of…
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B.girl, choreographer, member of the jury: Valentine Nagata-Ramos on evaluating Olympic break dance
Daughter of a mother from Spain and a father from Japan, French breaker and contemporary performer and choreographer Valentine Nagata-Ramos grew up in the suburbs of Paris. Photo courtesy cie Uzumaki © Joël el Hadj…
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Krzysztof Kiešlowski: Three Colors Trilogy
Krzysztof Kiešlowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on June 27, 1941. After two attempts and two rejections, he was finally admitted to the Łódź Film School on his third try. His first major success…
