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Jam on Pasta

From Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi, which will be published in February by Ecco. On December 26, 2022, while Kureishi was on vacation in Rome, he fainted, injured his spine in the…

The Painted Protest

by Dean Kissick,

How politics destroyed contemporary art

Everyone’s a Critic

From a list of accidental damage done to works of art since 2000, collected in Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World, which will be published this…

Spent Fuel

by Andrew Cockburn,

The risky resurgence of nuclear power

Itchy Nose

by Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…