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Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art
Addendum to an essay for Tablet
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The Gods have not returned. “They have never left us.”
On choosing to acknowledge the Muse
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A Supreme Fiction
Reflecting on a strange novel, briefly
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Interim: Two Poems
Latch | The Rocks
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The Great Debasement
How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet
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Art for Art’s Sake in the 21st Century
A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic
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The Empathy Racket
The pious and dreary insistence on heightened empathy as a proper or desirable response to art is made only by those with a stunted understanding of…
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