Arts & Books
Paul Gauguin: Painting Through Color
Quickly moving away from impressionism with which he cut his teeth, Paul Gauguin developed, during his stays in Brittany and then in the islands,...
Stoner by John Williams: A Cult Novel Everyone Talks about 50 Years Later
The New Yorker wrote " Stoner is the best American novel you've never heard of," when it was republished in the US in 2013....
The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus Realizes Life is Meaningless
The French-Algerian writer and philosopher Albert Camus (1913–1960) claimed in a 1945 interview that The Myth of Sisyphus was the only book of ideas...
Hari Kunzru’s White Tears: A Daring, Important, and Frightening Novel
Hari Kunzru mixes contemporary satire and suspense thriller with a precise look at white power in his novel "White Tears".
Hari Kunzru's fifth, critically acclaimed...
The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet: An Autobiographical Masterpiece in Gay Literature
An incomparable autobiography, a milestone in gay literature, and an existentialist masterpiece. Jean Genet's outsider classic has been hailed by thinkers such as Jean-Paul...
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