The Wistful Hirszenberg

The Wistful Hirszenberg

Herzenberg was a depressive, at least from what we can tell from his work, yet his brush created frantic displays of horror, and ghastly human emotion, all at the fringes of what was known as the “Jewish genre” in the late 19th century. The bleakness …

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Rand Paul Doubles Down on Anti-ISIS Strikes

“I've always said that I adhere to foreign policy realism—that you look at the facts as they exist, not as you wish them to be, as they exist—and that's why you can have one position on ISIS three years ago, where you say, 'you know, I don't think …

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Theatre review: Puppet Death Scenes smart, playful in new Edmonton venue

Depressive lighting. Human mortality. Ah yes, fire. That sort of thing. At moments in life when we're most up against cosmic absurdity, we should turn to puppets. Yes, turn to blocks of wood imbued with the breath of life by human ingenuity and the …

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Mario Sironi 1885-1961, Il Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome — review

By the time he was 20, absorption in the likes of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Heine and Wagner saw him high on a bittersweet cocktail of cynical, modernist realism laced with heady, myth-inspired romance. Sironi was by all accounts a taciturn …

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Deborah Hill Cone: The depressed person's guide to politics

It is quite rational to be negative: it's called "depressive realism". Studies have shown mildly depressed people are more likely to make accurate rather than self-serving judgments. When depressed we see ourselves and the world as it actually is …

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Sarah Silverman gets serious and sad at Sundance

In the film she plays Laney,a suburban wife and mother who struggles with depression, reckless behavior and addiction. She's an alcoholic, cocaine-snorting manic depressive who has an affair with a friend's husband, as well dangerous anonymous sex.

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?Peter Pan Live!? Review: No Amount of Clapping Brings It to Life

There was also an off-putting conflict between whimsy and realism. The sets—which, really, were a feat of design and direction—appeared to be remnants of a Lewis Carroll fever dream. Tiger Lily and her tribe, however, were outfitted in semi-realistic …

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