Culture

Article

Waidmannslust

"There is always the risk that we will forget we are merely playing pretend and begin living inside our own fictions. Or that we become so resigned to this state of affairs that we forget that things used to be different, and could still be."
By Linda Kinstler
Fiction
Foreign Affairs
Feature

Show, Don't Tell

Clifford Thompson writes about his life as an artist and his preoccupation with the passage of time, a theme on display in his new show, ‘Color and Mystery.’
By Clifford Thompson
Arts
Article

Updike Redux

John Updike's writing attempted to capture what is ineffably precious and intangible about life. What will be lost if the culture forgets him?
By Paul Baumann
Fiction
Culture