William Missouri Downs

“The death of art,” someone once said, “would not be the end of beauty. It would be the end of the human capacity to recognize it.” But I...

When the modern world came barging in, upending every familiar thing, I thought we would be safe—Surely, I believed, technology could...

It used to be that when someone couldn’t cut it in the competitive or creative world, they’d simply drop out or start drinking. These...

Theatre Antoine, Paris This morning, I found myself again reading the preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin  (1835), the novel by Théophile...