Table of Contents
2010 Spring
Arts & Letters
Introductory
Voices in Time
Inspiration
- Annie Dillard Posts a Job Description: 1989 / San Juan Islands, WA
- Vasily Kandinsky Replaces the Object: 1913 / Moscow
- Ways of the World: c.280 / China
- Communion: 1898 / Yasnaya Polyana
- Money Order: 1859 / Lucerne
- Casting Call: 1921 / Italy
- Divine Inspiration: c. 680 / North Yorkshire
- Roberto Bolaño's War of Words: 1975 / Mexico City
- Definition: 1757 / Paris
- Test of Time: 1919 / England
- Aleksandr Pushkin Prepares a Crime Scene: 1791 / Vienna
- Gustave Flaubert Conducts a Workshop: c. 1845 / France
- Vladimir Nabokov Observes a Fissure In Time: 1941 / St. Petersburg
- Practice Makes Perfect: 1834 / Japan
- Bacchic Frenzy: c. 412 BC / Athens
- Incitement to Riot: 1909 / Paris
- How to Begin: c. 18 BC / Rome
- Used By Permission of the Author: c. 1830 / Paris
- Clement Greenberg Examines the Umbilical Cord of Gold : 1939 / New York City
- An Ugly Man With Feeling: 1917 / Sweden
- Practice and Theory: c. 25 BC / Rome
- Writing in Stone: 1831 / Paris
- Stefan Zweig Catches the Fever: c. 1900 / Vienna
- Skill Sets: 1765 / Paris
- Shivering Fragments: 1908 / Perugia
- Louis Armstrong Up North With the Greats: 1922 / Chicago
- Not For Glory and Least of All For Profit: 1950 / Stockholm
Creation
- Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard: 2005 / New York City
- Writer's Block: 1890 / Christiana
- Elvis Presley is On Your Side: 1970 / Washington, DC
- James Baldwin Hears the Blues: 1957 / New York City
- Root and Blossom: 1821 / Pisa
- Digital Enhancement: c. 1550 / Italy
- Aflame: 1908 / Paris
- Rockstar: c. 55 / Rome
- David Selznick Gives a Damn: 1939 / New York City
- Verse Tartare: 1935 / Brooklyn
- Vincent Van Gogh Looks Back: 1889 / St.-Rémy-de-Provence
- Iconography: c. 1630 / Seville
- George Orwell on Bad Writing: 1946 / London
- Story Line: c. 335 BC / Athens
- Injured On the Job: 1509 / Vatican City
- Marcel Proust Obeys the Laws of Perspective: c. 1890 / Balbec
- John Berger Draws the Point of Crisis: 1953 / London
- The Inner Bamboo: c. 1075 / China
- By the Scroll: c. 550 BC / Athens
- Raymond Chandler Bites His Tongue: 1944 / Los Angeles
- Direct Impression: 1889 / London
- No Girl Next Door: 1906 / Japan
- Half-Formed Insects on the Nile: 1711 / London
- Show Business: 1941 / Los Angeles
- Aristophanes Ridicules Aeschylus and Euripides: 405 BC / Hades
- Glenn Gould Turns His Back on the Audience: c. 1975 / Toronto
- Guidelines: 1954 / Washington, DC
- The Puppet On a Cart : c. 1400 / Japan
- Mixed Reviews: 1939 / New York City
Exhibition
- Zadie Smith Escapes From an Art Class: 2005 / Wellington
- Waste Paper: c. 105 / Rome
- Music of the Spheres: c. 1820 / Balearic Islands
- Celebrity: 1965 / Philadelphia
- Outline and Shadow: 1843 / London
- Artistic License: 1573 / Venice
- Grand Tour: 1853 / Paris
- Callous Disregard: 1956 / New York City
- Ekphrasis: 1938 / Brussels
- Second Opinion: 1777 / Paris
- Artifactitious Stammerings: 1937 / Berlin
- Just Say No: c. 430 BC / China
- George Catlin Paints Little Bear: 1832 / Missouri
- Lee Quinones Does the Cars: 1976 / New York City
- Lifeblood of a Master Spirit: 1644 / London
- Softened Ivory: c. 5 / Rome
- Life Devoid of Words: 1896 / Nizhny Novgorod
- Robert Towne on the Plight of Screenwriters: 1995 / Los Angeles
- American Idol: 1849 / New York City
- Establishing Shot: 1605 / La Mancha
- Jack Tworkov on the Innocent Eye: 1961 / Provincetown
- Loose Screws: 1848 / Edinburgh
- Benvenuto Cellini Collects His Fee: 1524 / Rome
- Blue Chips: 1973 / New York City
- Chirping Insects: c. 1165 / China
- The Universal Possession of Mankind: 1827 / Weimar
- Library: c. 1587 / Aquitaine
- Power of Music: c. 50 BC / China
- Tautology: 1977 / New York City
- High Compliment: c. 415 BC / Athens
- Everlasting Laws: 1853 / Venice
- Divine Chant: c. 390 / Antioch
- Against the Grain: 1886 / Paris
- Interrogation: 1996 / New York City
- Anton Chekhov Discourages an Author: c. 1885 / Russia
- A Pleasant Surprise : 1778 / Paris
Departments
Essays
- The Composite Artist : by Salman Rushdie
- In the Gloom the Gold : by Jamie James
- Beauty is Shoe: by Wendy Steiner
- The Sacred Word : by Sabiha Al Khemir
Conversations
- Arthur Schopenhauer & Theodor Adorno: The Universal Language
- Arthur Fifield & Norman Maclean: Kiss Off
- Walter Benjamin & Andy Warhol: A Soup Can with Cosmic Significance
- Friedrich Schiller & David Foster Wallace: Mob Mentality
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