“It was important that I forgive her and all my former torturers because they were repositories of my childhood, living rosaries of shared, idiosyncratic memories.”
Inspired by the Welsh artist Gwen John, Celia Paul—one of England’s leading painters—reflects on the candor and vulnerability required for great portrait painting.
The United States has contributed to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. We have a moral duty to make sure that children do not starve there as a result.