Books
Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism
Tarn's meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Art
When Philosophy and Art Intersect
Maria Bussmann’s elusive drawings acknowledge the impossibility of fixing philosophical terms in imagery, like bugs in amber.
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Poems Written in the Company of Other Writers
Friederike Mayröcker's poems are often dedicated to specific people and thus constitute a very present act of communication.
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David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm
The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.