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Muse among the Drafts: Part II
The ongoing aesthetic encounter
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March 2024

Muse among the Drafts: Part I
The unforgettable in art
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November 2023

How do the animals treat you?
Recent publications
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July 2023

Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art
Addendum to an essay for Tablet
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March 2023

The Gods have not returned. “They have never left us.”
On choosing to acknowledge the Muse
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October 2022

A Supreme Fiction
On Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus, briefly
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Interim: Two Poems
Latch | The Rocks
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May 2022

The Great Debasement
How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet
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February 2022

Art for Art’s Sake in the New Century
A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic
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November 2021

The Empathy Racket
The insistence on heightened empathy as a proper response to art is made only by those with a stunted understanding of what art is.
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Essays on contemporary arts & letters by Alice Gribbin
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