Personal Essay

Both men and women enjoy thrillers, mystery, and crime. Yet it may still feel not quite respectable, somehow a guilty (sorry!) pleasure. Do these novels so often categorized as genre offer something the literary novel does not? The market is enormous, perhaps the largest in publishing. It is a cliché which may be true that only the Bible – say - outsells Agatha Christie. And then there are films and television, either original or adapted from novels.

Author, critic, and traveler, Marina Vaizey reflects on her experiences of the international art world, in a career spanning six decades, including eighteen years as the chief art critic at the Sunday Times. I can offer a lecture, very short, on the art world post war until now. Here it is. More. More artists, more money, more collectors, more collections, more scholarship, more publications, more museums, more galleries, more countries involved publicly world wide: Just - for good and ill - more.

We all have it—that inner voice that shines as a beacon to our authentic self—but it’s often dimmed by life’s struggles. And that’s when we lose our way, because our path is dark. The Lighthouse Project is a collection of poignant stories by strong women who share their diverse yet unifying truths on trusting their intuition and reigniting their inner spark. From losing friends to losing jobs, from the end of relationships to coping with grief, these brave humans share their powerful and personal journeys of resilience and self-discovery. We hope you’ll be inspired to lean into ...