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World

Indian art never stood alone. Comparative essays placing it beside Europe, East Asia, and the wider world.

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NENazaria Editorial

The Most Beautiful Drowning Ever Painted

Shakespeare kills Ophelia offstage, in a few reported lines. John Everett Millais painted the moment the play refused to show, and made a drowning almost unbearably lovely.

Jul 24World4 min read
The Most Beautiful Drowning Ever Painted
NENazaria Editorial

The Portrait That Feels Like Reading Dostoevsky

In 1872, Vasily Perov sat Fyodor Dostoevsky down and refused to flatter him. What he painted may be the greatest portrait of a writer ever made, because it looks the way the novels feel.

Jul 24World4 min read
The Portrait That Feels Like Reading Dostoevsky
NENazaria Editorial

Kafka Thought a Book Should Hurt

At twenty, in a letter to a friend, Franz Kafka wrote the most demanding definition of literature ever set down. He then spent his life writing books he asked to have burned.

Jul 24World4 min read
Kafka Thought a Book Should Hurt