Criticism

Why does a 19th century novella about an obstinate copyist continue to resonate in a time of Instagram and electric cars?

An introduction for 'The Treatise of the Three Impostors'

Questioning the culture of information with Tom McCarthy

Questioning my early understanding of Matisse

There must be something intrinsic about that thing we call "art" that transcends genre, context, and history.

Is Berger's Marxist take on European oil painting still relevant? Has the feminist social critic Camille Paglia has lost her edge?