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Sci-fi author B.C. Kowalski recently posted a short essay on why the advice to write every day is, for lack of a suitable euphemism, “bullshit.” Not that there’s anything wrong with it, Kowalski mai
The specter of Anita Hill looms over next week's hearing on Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation.
Paul McCartney has played it safe for decades, relying on the brilliance of his songwriting and musicianship, which no one ever doubts and so he never has to prove.
Austin Weber traveled to Kyoto and sang ABBA's 'Mamma Mia' in a big cold river. What made the resulting video so strangely compelling?
Sartre’s novel Nausea introduced his philosophical view as a form of illness to a WWII readership. “Nausea is existence revealing itself—and experience is not pleasant to see,” he wrote in his own s
Traditional Japanese art may please so many of us, even those of us with little interest in Japan itself, because of the way it inhabits the realm between representation and abstraction.