No More Corn in Egypt
The imminent destruction of a postmodern gem should inspire reflection on those dwindling resources: time and care.
Artist Agnes Martin on inspiration, interruptions, cultivating a creative atmosphere, and the only type of person you should allow into your studio
I have sometimes, in my mind, put myself ahead of my work and have suffered in consequence.
History of the Present: Dhaka
Dhaka is a paradigmatic South Asian megalopolis. It is also a model for what a city can be, a place where urban logics are tested, where optimism and pessimism, adaptation
The Queerness of It All: An Interview with Jeffrey Kripal
DEBATES ABOUT RELIGION can get pretty tiresome. Wherever you stand, it often seems like there’s nothing new to say about religion. But then you’ve probably never encountered Jeffrey Kripal.
Shunryu Suzuki explains how to practice zazen
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is the seminal work by San Francisco Zen Center founder Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. In this chapter alone he explains: how to practice zazen, the difference between
Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love
“About Ed” is a literary monument that harnesses memoir’s emotional honesty while indulging fiction’s stylistic latitude.
The price of Netanyahu’s ambition
Amid war with Hamas, a hostage crisis, the devastation of Gaza, and Israel’s splintering identity, the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s.
Christian Friedel tells Josh O’Connor about making The Zone of Interest
At the Telluride Film Festival late last summer, Josh O’Connor finally met the actor who delivered what he considers the performance of the year.
How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence
He began as more of a tutor than a talent. But in his final decade he lent a keen eye-in-the-sky view to the Paris streets, rendering miracles of kinetic characterization.
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows
How groups of birds got their names, with wondrous vintage illustrations by Brian Wildsmith.
Housing Agency
Opposed to top-down solutions, John F. C. Turner believed that architects and planners of housing should empower the people who will live in it. His ideas remain startlingly radical today.
Literary Circles
Designing the National Library of Kosovo in Pristina in the early 1970s, Andrija Mutnjaković deployed the dome as one of his fundamental forms in order to mark the Ottoman empire’s