Producing a weekly magazine is a relentless challenge; I have often compared our jobs to the mythic labors of Sisyphus, who was sentenced by angry gods to roll an enormous boulder up a hill only ...

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being ...

Sisyphus is cursed to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Pet fish generally content themselves to swimming the same lap over and over in a glass tank. Perpetuity can be soothing, so long as ...

The boulder would always roll back down before he could reach the top. It teams up six artists whose output asks about whether there is a modern counterpart of Sisyphus, and the rolling stone ...