Tag: Mulatu Astatke
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The Reel Argument: Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu made films about the same thing for forty years — the Japanese family, its dissolution, the grief of parents watching children leave, the quiet devastation of time — and he made them with a formal consistency so extreme that critics spent decades arguing about whether it was a limitation or an achievement, before…
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Anne Carson: The Intelligence of Desire
The 2026 Nobel laureate has brought classical scholarship, poetry and the essay into a sustained inquiry into desire, grief and the limits of knowledge. Her achievement changes how we understand the relationship between intellectual life and emotional experience. The award of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson, announced on 8 October, recognises…
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THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
There is a particular kind of intelligence required to notice what everybody else has agreed not to notice. David Sedaris has built a career from it. For more than three decades, he has observed families, airports, shop assistants, lovers, language lessons, neighbours, strangers and himself with the peculiar concentration of an anthropologist who has somehow…
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The Human Condition According to Walt Whitman
By Bergotte Walt Whitman’s answer to the human condition is the most audacious in all of literature: yes. Not the qualified yes of the philosopher who has weighed the evidence, not the fragile yes of the survivor who has come through suffering and found something on the other side, but the absolute, prior, unconditional yes…
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Room to Move: Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection
With Figure of Ma, Satoshi Kondo gives the space between body and cloth an eloquent, exuberant form. A fashion collection becomes especially compelling when its ideas can be understood through the clothes themselves. Satoshi Kondo’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Issey Miyake, presented at the Dojo de Paris on 2 October 2026, has precisely that quality.…
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Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village
Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a village in Burkina Faso with no electricity and no school. He went to Berlin on a scholarship, became an architect, and came back to build one. What he discovered in that act — about materials, about community, about what architecture is actually for — has been reshaping the…
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What’s So Special About Joy Division
By Bergotte Joy Division made two studio albums and a handful of singles between 1978 and 1980, and their singer Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen in Macclesfield on the eve of the band’s first American tour, at the age of twenty-three. It would be easy — it has been easy, for forty years…
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The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging
The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…
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ADHD in Women: What the Monash Study Reveals
For women living with ADHD, changes in concentration, organisation or emotional regulation can make previously manageable routines unexpectedly difficult. Research from Monash University’s HER Centre Australia gives women a reason to bring hormonal patterns into that conversation. Understanding when difficulties intensify may help identify the support, treatment reviews and everyday adjustments that would make life…
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Everything Flows: Who We Are According to Heraclitus
He wrote one book, deposited it in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and walked into the mountains. What survives of the book is approximately a hundred and thirty fragments — sentences, half-sentences, paradoxes, riddles — that have been puzzling serious readers for two and a half thousand years. He is the most difficult and…
