At 71, the singer-songwriter legend Marianne Faithfull has been recording for over 50 years. Rightfully so, her 21st album Negative Capability is a reflection on loss and loneliness and love. It’s the ...

Incredibly, it’s been nearly 40 years since Marianne Faithfull’s career renaissance began with the harrowing ice funk of 1979’s masterful “Broken English.” That album and its two successors were made ...

In a letter to his brothers in 1817, John Keats shared his admiration for Shakespeare’s “negative capability,” his capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable ...

Negative capability makes room for subtle experiences which, though important, would not come to a mind pressured, distracted, or otherwise unavailable 4. Overcoming alexithymia, difficulty ...

The poet John Keats wrote in 1817 about a quality that “Shakespeare possessed enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without ...

Incredibly, it’s been nearly 40 years since Marianne Faithfull’s career renaissance began with the harrowing ice funk of 1979’s masterful “Broken English.” That album and its two successors were made ...

As the marketing machinery now requires writers to turn into brands, the novelist wonders if our passion for memoirs is destroying fiction After almost half a century of acclaimed writing – after 16 ...

Martin Puryear, “Big Phrygian” (2010–14), painted red cedar 58 x 40 x 76 inches (all images © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) Recently, and ...

Keats coined the term ‘negative capability’, to denote an aptitude that poets must have which enables them to absorb the whole wide world, contradictions and all, and reflect it in their poetry.