When Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "man is condemned to be free", he intuited the immense anxiety of choice. How much ...

The habit of poets and ancient dreamers to project their own aliveness onto nonalive things itself suggests that it is the basic work of creation to bring about this very projection of aliveness,” ...

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If a hypothesis is the starting point of an investigation – the provisional answer to the question “what do we think happened ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

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Even with the silly colors and plastic, it's still weird to pull the trigger on yourself.

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Josh O’Connor heard a quote once that said that Steven Spielberg was like “the director of every child’s imagination.” The ...

Close your eyes and picture a coffee cup. Suddenly, the dark fills with shape, color, and texture. It’s a picture as vivid as the real thing, but it’s remarkable seeing how the image is all in your ...