At 27, the poet Rainier Maria Rilke struck up a correspondence with a 19-year-old military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus, and the letters he wrote were later compiled into “Letters to a Young Poet.” But, until recently, these letters were one-sided.
During the 1910s and ’20s, Edna St. Vincent Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. Before the age of the movie star, she became America’s first starlet.
“Critics reach for a few key words with Anni Albers: ‘crisp,’ ‘precise,’ ‘mathematical.’ I would like to propose ‘frightening.’ Her work arouses the suspicion that beauty is simple and we’ve all been overthinking it,” Jackson Arn writes.
Joanna Arnow’s new film, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” mines the comic potential of distance and framing, in an examination of degradations large and small,
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The philosopher Byung-Chul Han has become a kind of sage of the Internet era, but “perhaps we should take his writing as an incitement to live our own offline lives instead,”
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“I like it when I pick up something, I don’t know what it is, and then my head gets blown off. That’s my favorite reading experience,” the writer Maggie Nelson tells Lauren Michele Jackson, in a new interview.
In 2021, the singer Maggie Rogers entered the graduate program at Harvard Divinity School. “A lot of what I came here to do was to think about how to create a more sustainable structure around a creative practice,” she told
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Anticipating increased tensions caused by income inequality, some of the wealthiest people have created luxury hideaways. “I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker,” the head of an investment firm said in 2017.
Joanna Arnow’s poignant and original performance in her first feature film, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” is a double masterwork of acting and directing,
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