Lisa Appignanesi

Edmund de Waal’s Venetian Tableaux

The history of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto reverberates through writer and artist Edmund de Waal’s two site-specific installations. They go by the joint name of “Psalm,” those biblical poems and prayers of exile that are core to all three Abrahamic faiths and are haunted both by memories of loss and hopes of refuge, sometimes of retribution.

Kathy Acker, Sadeian Woman

It’s no surprise that Kathy Acker, who had the aura of a punk star and performed her readings with a slow, flat earnestness that utterly belied their often shocking content, felt at home at the ICA, an institution where the arts crossed over and mixed and mingled, as did their audiences.

Berger’s Ways of Being

If Berger’s ultimate vision is bleak, his way of seeing, together with the power of his prose, has leapt across the years to give hope to new and younger generations.

A Letter from Contributors

Dr. Death

‘Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna’ by Edith Sheffer

Painting on the Precipice

Charlotte Salomon’s ‘Life? or Theatre?’

Is Trump Certifiable?

The misuse of power is not a free-standing psychiatric category, though power seems to exacerbate a whole range of existing “craziness,” whether it is that of movie moguls or politicians.

Return of The Freud Wars

Freud’s Clay Feet

Frederick Crews’s biography ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion’

The Freud Question: An Exchange

‘Independent Jewish Voices’

Schadenfreud