Articles of Note

Van Gogh and Gauguin are seen as two great loners. Nonsense. Whatever the painters sought to escape, it wasn't human contact... more »


New Books

Seamus Heaney is famous for poems of bogs, ditches, and sectarian violence. But he became a poet of happiness... more »


Essays & Opinions

Against street art. "Kitsch, contrived and uninspiring," it is "the act of an entitled, middle-class narcissist"... more »