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Summary
Bruno Bischofberger, the Swiss dealer who helped turn Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat into global art-world forces, has died at 86. He became a defining figure of the high-gloss 1980s boom, when galleries doubled as celebrity factories and prices seemed to levitate overnight.
Why it matters
He helped build the modern art-market playbook that still drives fame, value, and taste.
Summary
The domestic novel is getting a glow-up, with big, ambitious books proving that home life can carry the same voltage as war, travel, or crime. Instead of treating the house as the quiet backdrop, these stories make it the main stage, where desire, shame, power, and taboo play out in full view. The point is simple: the drama was always in the kitchen, we just needed writers willing to shoot it in Technicolor.
Why it matters
Domestic life is no longer being framed as small, and that opens the door for bigger, stranger, bolder storytelling.
Summary
László Krasznahorkai makes a case for the long sentence as a kind of moral and artistic necessity, not a stylistic stunt. He talks about chasing beauty in a world that keeps losing touch with it, and how writing becomes his way of pushing back against that drift. And he’s bluntly unsentimental about his own work: once a book is done, he has no interest in revisiting it.
Why it matters
It’s a reminder that some of the most distinctive art comes from stubborn pursuit, not confidence.
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