Andrew Solomon and Alex Halberstadt discuss whether creative genius is partly a function of timing, its uneasy relationship to race and gender, and Solomon’s contention that “genius reflects the ability to add something of value to human consciousness.”
What you make seems at once impossible and true, and makes us feel that all human enterprise is both impossible and true.
Charlie Hebdo’s staff members knew that producing satire aimed at venerated targets was dangerous.
I hope the American system of checks and balances will keep Trump from achieving totalitarian authority, but I think left to his own devices, he would eliminate all of his opposition much the way that Kim Jong Un has done.
If we value free speech, then this question of the assassin’s veto is a key one.
Ironically, this time of isolation is the most important time for us to rely on the collective experience.
World's End rises solidly out of the Blue Ridge Mountain mists.
Andrew Solomon’s opening remarks at the 2016 PEN America Literary Gala, held on May 16, 2016, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The Kremlin Palace is not a company set on overwhelming us with flashy work; its directors are setting out painstakingly from scratch.
Merkin is capable of being at once melodramatic and finely nuanced; she has so many good phrases about depression that it’s hard to choose among them.
