Opposable thumb

    Dear friends, it’s been a covidious year, A testing time for all of us here— Citizens of an island nation In a ...

There is plenty of evidence of the way the business mentality has permeated every level of society since the recrudesc...

I am a hopeless political prophet, and you can just about bet that with any prediction I make, the opposite will come true; nor am I familia...

In her ‘erotic thriller’ In the Cut , published in 1995, Susanna Moore has her heroine (a New York creative writing teacher fascina...

  Who creates? Who decides? For convenience’s sake we attribute work to individuals (‘It needs but a man and and a candle to make a...

Harold Bloom speaks of ‘aftering’—the gnawing thought that we have always, somehow, arrived after the event. The artist is there fo...

  Genesis, chapter 6, verse 17: having given Noah extraordinarily explicit instructions about how to build an ark, God (in the King ...