The Screaming Pope

photo of Eugene O’Neill by Alice Boughton T here’s an argument to be made that if everyone were mindful and lived in the m...

Courbet's “Femme a la vague” (1868) The Musee du Luxembourg has devoted a show to Paul Durand-Ruel ( "Paul Durand-Ruel, The Gam...

Flaubert once said “ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your wor...

Photo: Kjetll Ree The Times’  Larry Rohter reported on the Norwegian author Karl Owe Knausgaard’s 3600 page memoir , My Struggle   whic...

Freud said “anatomy is destiny”, but one wonders if consciousness hasn’t become the rogue player making   personality into a more labile aff...