Essay Ways of Learning Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Essay Medicine In the Midst of Death By John Crowley If the universe can’t outlive or transcend individual consciousness, does death even really exist? More
Essay Fear Every Pebble Can Blow Us Sky-High By J. Hoberman A reconsideration of The Wages of Fear, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. More
Essay Lines of Work Lost Tools By Donovan Hohn A tour of the antique tool trade confirms that they just don’t make things like they used to. More
Essay Arts & Letters In the Gloom the Gold By Jamie James Consider the legacy of Ezra Pound—no poet has ever been so influential, so controversial, and so little read. More
Essay Swindle & Fraud A Fish Tale By David Samuels Long before Moby Dick, Herman Melville set off on a Polynesian trip that became a famous literary hoax. More
Essay Crimes & Punishments Staking a Life By Christopher Hitchens Why is the United States so wedded to the infliction of the death penalty? More
Essay Time Time After Time By John Crowley It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them. More
