Secret Sisters: Surprising Friendships Between Female Authors Emma Claire Sweeney and Emily Midorikawa Arts & Culture Images of literary friendship have become the stuff of legend, often because of their very public natures: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth trekking through the Lakeland Fells; Wilkie Collins and...
One Ring to Rule Them All? Bruce K. Adler Arts & Culture, Government, Politics & Economics Why Gollum and Apple have more in common than you'd think.
Academia’s Culture of Silence Alissa Brown Arts & Culture, Education, Psychology A sobering look into academia's culture of anxiety and depression.
The Relevant Versus Narcissist Artist: How to Know If You Are a Narcissist Artist? Diana Rivera Arts & Culture, Psychology, Society & Culture People of the digital era, including all those on social media, provide enough substantial evidence to assert that people need to be relevant in the crowd. From photos of latest meals eaten along side Spike...
On Florence Foster Jenkins, Who Loved — and Failed at — the Arts Benjamin Railton Arts & Culture On the wannabe opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, who failed upward.
Election-Related Folk Art Samantha Close Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics “Ted Cruz Republican Leading the Fight” from ConservativeArt “Feel the Laser Bern” from DanSchaubDesigns “Women for Hillary jewelry” from slrfreespiritjewelry “Donald Trump...
Why So Many Americans Think They’re #Blessed Joseph P. Laycock Arts & Culture, Religion Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor from Duke Divinity School who was recently diagnosed with stage 4...