Triptych image: Khalid Hussein, "Basbossa in the Sky," 2012   I. Words Are the Reverse of Pain  “Taglioni’s Jewel Casket,” Joseph Cornell (1940) / (Image via moma.org) “TAGLIONI’S JEWEL CASKET,” conjured into form in 1940 by the artist Joseph ...

nbsp;The small Victorian hotel where Madeleine disappeared had disappeared itself; concrete had replaced it, at the corner of Eddy and Gough. On the other hand the sequoia cut was still in Muir Woods. On it Madeleine traced the short distance ...

CONVERSATION  Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting is about aesthetic judgments: an inquiry into the terms and origins of taste. How do we decide what we feel about the latest Chantal Akerman film or the fiction of Javier ...