Author: My World of Interiors
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Art in the Wake of September 11
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the attacks remain curiously difficult to assimilate into the history of art. This is not because they lacked images. Quite the opposite. Few historical events have been so comprehensively photographed, televised, replayed and digitally circulated. The second aircraft entering the South Tower, the towers burning against an unnaturally blue…
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What’s Going On This Autumn?
What’s on in the world’s cultural capitals from September through December 2026 — the exhibitions, operas, theatre, and art fairs worth travelling for…
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The Season Opens
The Passenger is a weekly dispatch on travel — places, hotels, restaurants, the strange logistics of being elsewhere. It is written by Bergotte. Vienna in September, and what happens when a city built for culture remembers what it is for Vienna in July and August belongs, with varying degrees of reluctance, to the tourists. They…
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The Reel Argument: Maurice Pialat
By Bergotte Maurice Pialat is the best French filmmaker of the second half of the twentieth century that most people outside France have never seen, and the neglect is one of those quiet scandals that film culture periodically allows to accumulate without anyone taking responsibility for correcting it. He made films about love the way…
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The Human Condition According to Edith Wharton
By Bergotte Edith Wharton understood that society is not the backdrop to human life but its substance — that the codes, rituals, and unspoken laws through which a community organises itself are not superficial constraints on some deeper, freer self but the very medium in which selfhood is formed, expressed, and destroyed. This is a…
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Slow Down Or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
Timothée Parrique’s Slow Down or Die asks us to abandon economic growth as civilisation’s governing purpose—and replace it with sufficiency, equality, care and democratic control.
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Zaha Hadid
The Architecture of Impossible Things Zaha Hadid spent sixteen years designing buildings that could not be built. When the technology finally caught up with her imagination, she remade the skyline of the world. The question she never stopped arguing about was whether any of it was actually for the people inside. By Bergotte There is…
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What’s So Special About Laura Nyro
By Bergotte Laura Nyro wrote some of the most commercially successful songs of the late 1960s. She also made some of the least commercially successful records of that era — records so strange, so emotionally extreme, so structurally unwilling to behave, that the music industry dealt with her the way a mining company deals with…
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Ask Bee #1
Ask Bee: How Do I Learn to Read Again? On lost concentration, the infinite scroll and finding our way back to books. Dear Bee, I have a conundrum. For a long time, I have been unable to read books. I blame modern technology, the iPhone and my increasingly short attention span. I simply cannot concentrate…
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Ask Bee
Introducing a new correspondence column about life, culture and everything in between. Some questions have straightforward answers. Others stay with us: the private dilemmas, social uncertainties and curious little preoccupations that cannot be settled by a search engine. Sometimes what we need is another mind—a different perspective, an honest opinion, or simply the reassurance that…
