Nicholas Burman is a writer and editor with a focus on the arts and culture.

01.17.2023

• Nicholas Burman

Herbert Read: The Art of Everyday Life

Critic and philosopher Herbert Read was a contradictory figure — an anarchist and a knight, a lover of medieval art and industrial design — but at the center of his work was the belief that we can all be artists.

12.18.2022

• Nicholas Burman

Fight for Your Right to Be Lazy

In the late nineteenth century, French Marxist Paul Lafargue put forward a demand that still resonates nearly a century and a half later: workers have a right to be lazy.