Culture

Three miles off the coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, in the world’s largest freshwater lake, sits an undeveloped 90-acre island with an agenda.

Sam Guelimi, founder of Edwarda, an erotic magazine devoted to the art of desire tells us about mystery, philosophy, discretion and expression.

One aspect of a city that we are always fascinated by is the creative space.

Human history is filled with trial-and-error learning and misunderstandings and misclassifications. Dr. Gary Slutkin, founder of CeaseFire, argues that as a society we have been looking at violence and aggression in a naive and outdated way.

Two vernacular photographers excavate neglected histories from lost repositories, dislodging past narratives and manners of interpretation, from all-too-fixed frames.

Lewis Lapham argues that there’s a reason good writing is hard to find on the internet. What is good writing, anyway?

Should we be so scared of being alone? Perhaps we can learn a thing or two by getting to know the one thing we can never escape: ourselves.

The distance has been breached. The physical world we inhabit and the digital world we created are now touching and becoming one. Where the overlap is most pronounced, on the foremost edges, people are making things, rekindling the old, creating the new, all enabled by an interconnected world.

If the new tools of technology are so great, why are so many of us trying to escape them?