The Arts as Resistance
What are the implications for any society that emphasizes monuments to power and domination over imagination and the arts?
Beyond the Exaltation of the Individual Dancer
Posted on February 1, 2024
Image: A recent production of Alonzo King’s Single Eye with ABT principal dancers (from left) Thomas Forster, Isabella Boylston, Calvin Royal III, and
Skylar Brandt; photograph by Marty Sohl.
Is it possible to imagine the ballet world without a primary teleology of aesthetic perfectionism and a baseline of low self-worth?
The Afterlife of Character
Posted on January 26, 2024
Image: Gustave Doré’s illustration for the Prologue to Don Quixote, 1863; public domain, Wikipedia.
The greatest characters possess an irrepressible vitality.
Return of the False Messiah
Posted on January 18, 2024
Image: Statue of Sabbatai Zevi in Ulcinj, Montenegro, where he was exiled in 1673; THR illustration.
Understanding the extent of the threat posed by Bibi requires a broad historical perspective.
Artisans of Words
The emptiness of words, and our shared resignation to meaning manipulation, is no small matter.
Taking the Long View
Posted on December 29, 2023
Image: THR illustration (Bonki Studio/Shutterstock).
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.