Encounters with the late Chantal Akerman's films

Why theatre remains vital

The glorification of the pontiffs of Palo Alto

Creating and contesting categories

The importance of being curious

Is too much information ever enough?

In defence of irony

The myth of the ‘Great American Novel’

The politics of pants

Words and nations

On disasters and motivation

An excerpt from Men and Apparitions, a novel in progress

How taste and preferences change

Boredom and death: two sides of the same coin?

How do artists respond to current events?

What constitutes political art?

How our attitudes betray us

The ups and downs of failure as a creative tool

A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs

The problems of acting natural