Category: Arts

Barbed Beauty

“Perhaps we must accept that we are simply watchers of beautiful forms. And if we acknowledge that we are observers, bound by our own frailties and limitations, we may be able to rescue the memory of what was, for an instant, exquisite.”

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FUSE

It is an afternoon in early October and the grass on the south lawn of Frist is thick and soft as moss.

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David and David

David Foster Wallace is not here. In the absence of a physical body there is an idea, that of two Davids. It’s brought to life by biographer D.T. Max and author Jeffrey Eugenides, sitting in front of a rapt audience in the James Stewart Theater. The concept of two Davids—the sincere, troubled one and the manipulative, self-aggrandizing one—is one that the real men onstage constantly return to.

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Stephens Fitness Center

So it is cozy. You might say small. Or even absurdly tiny.
And it is busy. Teeming, if you prefer. Perhaps you stand a greater chance of being struck by lightning while clutching a winning lottery ticket and barebacking flying swine than eyeing an open elliptical machine during peak hours.

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Bob Dylan

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Review: Neeta Patel’s “time is a floating point number.”

Patel’s senior thesis show […] is an intelligent meditation on text, handwriting, and the act of recording.

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A Note To Mr. Python

I call you my friend, Mr. Python.

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Writing Women

(A male author) on the gender trouble of imaginative literature.

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East and West

Photography by Esti Matulewicz.

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Two Stories

I don’t really examine things too closely. Everything is not a work of art. I’m not like those academics, those writers that go along looking for the meaning of the world in everything that they find on the street.

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Monument to Party Founding

A Lizzie Buehler Original

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Mixed Tongues

One sunny Saturday morning, at the end of my first week in Japan, Ms. Shinako arrived, packaged gift in hand, bowing deeply and smiling as she stepped through the door. She was in her mid-twenties, petite and a little bit … Read More

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