The Political Nature of Art
“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” –Robert Rauschenberg For nearly two decades I have been bound to the mystic…
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Library of the Mind; or, Too Much Knowledge
In the first part of the prologue to Sasha Abramsky’s The House of Twenty Thousand Books, the story of his grandfather Chimen’s life and the countless books that filled his…
The Author’s Duty
As a writer for more than a quarter century now, it was not until reading Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We that I gave the idea of the author’s duty,…
On My Fascination with
the Renaissance and
the French Revolution
I have been continuously obsessed with the French Revolution since I first learned about it in grade school. Only the Renaissance rivaled this event for me…
On Why I Can No Longer Read Literature
I used to love literature, fiction and poetry primarily. I am a devotee of the classics and will always be. But the last decade of my…