Crying
Personal History
The Ability to Cry
If I shed one tear, I might become Alice, swimming in an ocean of my tears.
By Yiyun Li
London Postcard
Tania Bruguera’s Empathy-Inducing Installation
The artist has transformed the Tate Modern’s turbine hall with heat-sensitive paint, a foreboding rumble, and a crying room with piped-in vapor.
By Rebecca Mead
Culture Desk
The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh’s performance last Thursday, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, combined the postwar attitude that men should be in touch with their feelings with the intrinsic American ideal of white male privilege.
By Michael Lista
Fiction
Moonlit Landscape with Bridge
“He felt as if he were releasing the spirit of chaos into the world. But wasn’t it already here?”
By Zadie Smith