This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously ...

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 to see it roll back down, and to start rolling his ...

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 ...

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 ...

But when it comes to the big goals—global stability, a fair economy, a solution for the climate crisis—it can feel as if you’ve been pushing a boulder up a hill only to see it come rolling ...