Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest book in English, In the Land of the Cyclops, translated by Martin Aitken, is an essay collection on art, literature, and life that opens with an apparition of a child’s ...

This is going to be a longer essay than I initially thought I’d write about conspiracy theory. It began in my head as me thinking about a few points I would have added to something I’d recently ...

When I was a child, I made obsessive drawings of schoolgirls and created elaborate personal stories for each of my characters. Imbuing my silent drawings with narrative was a form of entertainment, ...

These wonderful essays capture Hustvedt's thoughtful, intensely personal and aesthetically charged responses to art. At first, Hustvedt's choice of artists seems random or disjointed, but it becomes ...

It’s in the definition of shorter-form writing that it allows less room to stray and complicate; such quick-fire assertions, in evidence here and in the frieze columns from which the volume takes in ...

Poet Dubrow (Wild Kingdom) serves up haunting, personal meditations on art and its capacity to grapple with tragedy. In “The Dead Class,” Dubrow weaves together memories of the antisemitism she ...

The third section of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is Truth. Without knowing the truth of the history of Australia’s Indigenous people, and how the European invasion continues to impact on them, ...

Last month’s publication of My Jerry Saltz Problem, my essay on art criticism and new media, generated quite a conversation in the circles of, well, art criticism and new media. The article became the ...

Art essays. Warhol: the silver tenement -- Alex Katz and the tactics of representation -- Jean Tinguely's new machine -- Lead kindly blight -- "It reaches a desert in which nothing can be perceived ...