Being willing to change your mind doesn’t mean you ... grown in ways we haven’t shared with each other. The art of changing your mind isn’t about flipping opinions for the sake of it.

Great magic renovates your brain, as all true art does. It takes your mind on a wild ride. It expands your sense of what human beings can do when they put their minds to it. In the 2022 show ...

Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the ...

You must change your life”—settled into my mind like an irreversible command. Art, when it is real, insists upon change. It pulls at something deep, demanding honesty and courage. A painting ...

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It seems to me that this change is part ... I ask, “How can your writing explore this complexity? How can your poem surprise and delight you by changing its mind?” I hold up the joy of ...