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Even before his very public embrace of right-wing politics in 2008, David Mamet was famous for his divisive, politically-incorrect, and expletive-laced plays. So what happens when the new, liberal-baiting Mamet takes on a subject as charged as race?
Napoleon said caricatures “did more than all the armies of Europe” to defeat him. King Louis Philippe jailed a comic artist on the grounds that such a work “amounts to an act of violence.”
A new series in which we talk to artists, musicians, and other creators about the books they were reading or inspired by when they made their latest work. This week, it's Simone Schmidt of Toronto's The Highest Order and One Hundred Dollars.
Georges Perec's dream journals are full of the weird minutiae one would expect, but they add up to a biography—Perec's life in the dreamworld, where we all spend at least a third of our time.
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