April tenth will mark the a hundredth anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Nice Gatsby. As A.O. Scott notes in a latest tribute, when first published, The Nice Gatsby obtained off to a gradual begin. Initially, “Overviewers shrugged. Gross sales had been sluggish. The novel and its writer slid towards obscurity.” It…
Regardless of his one-time good friend and malestor Sigmund Freud’s enormous affect on Western self-understanding, I’d argue it’s Carl Jung who remains to be most with us in our communal practices: from his deal with introversion and extroversion to his view of syncretic, intuitive types of spirituality and his indirect influence on 12-Step professionalgrams. However Jung’s journey…
Brian Eno was supposeing in regards to the purpose of artwork a decade in the past, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture (previously featured right here on Open Culture). However he was additionally supposeing about it three many years in the past, as evidenced by A 12 months with Swollen Appendices, his diary…
The response to the 2025 Studying Problem has been overwhelming! What enjoyable chatting books with you all this previous month has been. (Go to the authentic problem publish if in case you have no concept what I’m speaking about and wish to be part of us for the remainder of the yr!) Don’t overlook that youngsters can…
A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script nobody has ever decoded, full of cryptic illustrations, its origins staying to this present day a mystery…. It’s not as satisfying a plot, say, of a National Treapositive or Dan Brown thriller, certainly not as action-packed as pick-your-Indiana Jones…. The Voynich Manuscript, named for the antiquarian who rediscovered it…
What’s a local weather justice college, and the way can our universities rework into establishments that actually promote the well-being of the earth and humanity? Jennie C. Stephens’s new e book, Local weather Justice and the College: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All (Johns Hopkins College Press, 2024), units out to reply that query. It…
For a design class undertaking, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff College of Artwork and Design, got down to clarify the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a Nineteenth-century creator, wouldn’t beneathstand modern phrases like ebooks, downmasses or the interinternet, she decided to take a metaphorical strategy. She crafted a “guide…
Whatever set of religious or cultural traditions you come from, you’ve probably seen a Celtic cross earlier than. Not like a conventional cross, it has a circular ring, or “nimbus,” the place its arms and stem intersect. The only addition of that element offers it a excessively distinctive look, and certainly makes it one of…
When the names of French poet Paul Éluard and German artist Max Ernst come up, one subject all the time follows: that of their years-long ménage à trois — or moderately, “marriage à trois,” as a New York Occasions article by Annette Grant as soon as put it. It begined in 1921, Grant writes, when the Surrealist…
In Nicole Bedera’s new e-book, On the Flawed Aspect: How Universities Defend Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence (College of California Press, 2024), the Title IX advisor and sexual violence researcher investigates the nation’s Title IX places of work via the lens of 1 public college, which she provides the pseudonym Western College. Her findings, drawn…
Folks maintain attempting to inform me that the e book, as a solution to ship info, edification, and leisure, is doomed to extinction. The radio, then tv, and now the web have been all going to supplant books. Not solely have been these extra technologically advance media going to exchange the type of deep, dedicated studying…
If you already know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you positively know the Guide of Kells. “Certainly one of Eire’s niceest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.internet, “it’s set other than other manuscripts of the identical period by the quality of its artworkwork and the sheer number of illustrations that run viaout the 680 pages of…