JMW Turner, Helen Garner, and More

Turner, though rich, lived in squalor. Why?

In his late years, JMW Turner, though rich, lived in “moral degradation” in squalid lodgings in a squalid part of London. Why?... more »

Helen Garner went from being a plagiarist of her own life to an acclaimed celebrator of the poetic quotidian... more »

The case for mortality often argues that living forever – the boredom! – is worse than certain death.…