The Ripple Effect

Musings on our impulse to translate nature into art.

The Universal Language of Literature

Reading Wuthering Heights with a group of juvenile offenders.

We Contain Multitudes

Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall offers a meditation on selfhood and wholeness.

A Tale for Our Time Being

Set in the 1930s, The Matchbox Girl feels alarmingly resonant today.

The Madness of the Moment

In turbulent times, art often takes a surrealist turn.

George Sand at Nohant

The feminist icon lived a life of genius but failed her own daughter.

Emerging from the Shadow

How the plight of refugees real and fictional casts the American Dream in stark relief.