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Odysseus is the only man to hear the Sirens sing, and not die broken on their rocks. Or is he?

Love is certainly susceptible to lassitude. Together forever. Or not. So how long does love last? How long can it?

What we'd sacrifice for love is one thing – but what might we sacrifice love for? An opening post of a four-part series

Covid is what happens when you’re busy planning your new year celebration in an outdoor hot tub.

the universe's "clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love"

Love lies in ties – it comes alive in bond, but dies in binding. A conversation about separateness, and connection.

Can we kindle and keep an eternal flame? A celestial, earthly, journey to a pre-apocalyptic world

A generation of technologically-enhanced loneliness should have prepared us well for social distancing. It hasn’t.

A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election

What can the death-defying Sisyphus and Orpheus teach us? Sisyphus is a story of liberty lost, Orpheus of freedom, and love, tested.

Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.

(or: The Mind's I-I) A slightly elaborated comment to Shirley's What Do You See?, a very fine illustration of freedom (choice) and...

Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...

On this Tu b'Av (the Jewish Day of Love), foreshadowing the lunar eclipse, the rising artist, Keshet Leah Abulof (KLA), kindly agreed to...

LOVE/R this child is still -born. It assumes airs and love and dies. It had no air, before it needed air, and no amount of wind can bring...

This post is part of Sapienism's online symposium dedicated to Luca Guadagnino's 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name. Each of the four...

One of the first questions that came to my mind while watching Call Me by Your Name was - why choosing this title, and more importantly,...

Why leave your love? I search for answers in Call Me by Your Name (the film & the book), and Milton’s Paradise Lost. This post is part of...

The universe of Call Me by Your Name is remarkably separate from external context. The story occurs in a dreamy, unperturbed bubble....

What if you received an email saying you had been erased from someone’s memory, and that you should no longer attempt to contact them?...