James Polchin teaches writing at NYU and is the founder and editor of the site Writing in Public.
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Originality Versus the Arts In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion against convention […]
Graffiti These Bones The skeleton of a young girl: This is the first thing to seize my eye as I enter the cemetery of the Capuchin monastery in Rome. Mounted at the vault’s center and framed by four elliptical […]
The Gravity of Graffiti On a humid day in early October, I walked from the Ponte Sisto to the Ponte Mazzini. The river was flowing on my right and the progress of Western European culture, from a Roman point of […]
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