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Italian writer, Leonardo Sciascia. (Photo by Vittoriano Rastelli/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Mafia writer

Ben Sixsmith · March 13, 2026 5:56 am

Werner Herzog attends the 82nd International Venice Film Festival on Aug. 28. (STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Werner Herzog’s types of truth

Ben Sixsmith · December 5, 2025 4:05 am

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From cold to hot with Andrey Kurkov

Ben Sixsmith · September 12, 2025 7:08 am

Internet voyeurism has drilled a hole in the soul of rap

Ben Sixsmith · January 2, 2025 10:29 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

A medicinal dose of ‘toxic masculinity’

Ben Sixsmith · April 11, 2024 9:00 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

The tyranny of signifiers

Ben Sixsmith · December 15, 2023 9:05 am

Author David Foster Wallace

Magazine - Life & Arts

The tyranny of signifiers

Ben Sixsmith · December 15, 2023 4:05 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Political incorrectness is killing comedy

Ben Sixsmith · July 21, 2023 9:55 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Jason Molina’s morbid Americana still survives

Ben Sixsmith · March 10, 2023 6:55 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The meaning of performative violence

Ben Sixsmith · December 2, 2022 3:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Was Kafka a great visual artist?

Ben Sixsmith · September 23, 2022 3:00 am

Magazine - Features

The war next door

Ben Sixsmith · March 18, 2022 3:00 am