Cinema"The Fabelmans": A new recipe for old ingredientsOn the ways we are formed in childhood, and how artists return to familiar places to find new ways forward. In our beginning, as T. S....
BooksIn Praise of Comic BooksOn what makes comic books special, and an argument against calling them "graphic novels". When I was growing up, comic books were a major...
Culture"Stolen Focus": Part TwoOn Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus, and how the most extreme voices are dominating our public conversations. In part one of this essay, I...
Culture"Stolen Focus": Part OneOn Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus, and how a digital detox can clear up mental clutter. Read part two here. Art Of Conversation has...
CultureThe Cost of GreatnessOn Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, and what both can tell us about what some will sacrifice to...
CultureOn Living and Dying WellWhat the shared life – and death – of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft can teach us about a "timely death". Humans have achieved...
