Supernatural gifts—like communicating with the dead or powers of prophecy—aren’t typically associated with art critics. If that were the case, we could venture into more lucrative professions—real estate, say, or palm reading. Still, I feel confident divining the response of Marcel Duchamp, the grand père of anti-art, who died almost 40 years ago, to the Read More
Supernatural gifts—like communicating with the dead or powers of prophecy—aren’t typically associated with art critics. If that were the case, we could venture into more lucrative professions—real estate, say, or palm reading. Still, I feel confident divining the response of Marcel Duchamp, the grand père of anti-art, who died almost 40 years ago, to the Read More
Inner Navigation: Why We Get Lost and How We Find Our Way , by Erik Jonsson. Scribner, 347 pages, $25.
Erik Jonsson’s Inner Navigation achieves within its first few pages something that few books manage to do at all: It isolates a subtle but universal strand of human experience-physical disorientation-and holds it up to scrutiny. Read More
