The Screaming Pope

the firebombing of Dresden Reality is currently akin to Strindberg's A Dream Play. In the preface to the play the author writes: "T...

Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill all met a Yalta in the aftermath of The Second World War. With Hitler vanquished, the conferees set out to di...

What makes a work of art bad? Distortions masking as ambiguities, manipulative devices in the lieu of complexity, are some answers. Why does...

Haley Stevens is stupid. Plainly she doesn't like El-Sayed, who she feels didn't strongly enough repudiate an anti-Israel ad. But wh...

La Cicciolina   Pollock and Lucian Freud, painters whose styles have literally nothing to do with each other, share a similar persona and th...

The Ghost of Xmas Yet to Come (John Leech) Very few people contemplate the notion of what it means to no longer to be. For all its simplicit...

"To Be Is To Be Perceived," esse est percipi, the quote from Bishop Berkeley acts as the epigram for Samuel Beckett's only mo...