Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: A question crucial in the life of every person is: how much meaning and value should the world have for me? Reading the new issue of TRO, you’ll be surprised and thrilled by the magnificent, logical way that question is dealt with by Aesthetic Realism. And so… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband John Stern. She says: When I first read Eli Siegel’s poem “Character Sketch,” I loved the way he gave form to self-deprecating feelings like those I’d had. And who hasn’t complained about and murkily criticized himself or herself? In the poem… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What are people really hoping for in love? And what causes the anger and disappointment that so often accompany—or take the place of—what people thought was love? Reading this new issue of TRO, you’ll be thrilled by the understanding of what love really is—and of what in a person… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This logical, thrilling issue of TRO is about something tremendously important in our lives. It’s titled “Fact, Value–& Our Own Emotions.”  Do we want to be fair to the facts—about people, about things?  Do we want to value things accurately?  Do we want to look at our feelings as facts?… Read more

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, and political coordinator for a New York State labor union, says: Whether a person follows politics closely or not, it is clear that politics, government, and the decisions of elected officials affect the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. What would it mean to have politics… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What can we learn about our own worries from one of the most important documents in American history? What would it mean to worry in a way that makes us stronger, kinder, prouder? That’s what the latest issue of TRO is about. For instance: there’s a… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The basis of “Emphasis, Art, & Ourselves” is some of the greatest seeing in human thought: the seeing by Eli Siegel that “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” Two of art’s opposites, and… Read more

Richita Anderson, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Having studied and cared for anthropology both in college and later, I see anthropologist Dr. Arnold Perey’s Gwe, Young Man of New Guinea: A Novel against Racism as indispensable to the understanding of humankind, from the earliest cultures to our present day. In the novel, Dr. Perey writes about… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Dickens at his deepest and largest, and life in America today: what is the relation between them? In “Good Nature, Dickens, & Power,” you’ll see something completely new: that good nature is not a matter of being pleasant—there is nothing more important and truly demanding in… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Great pleasure and education await the reader of “Knowledge—Excited and True.” You’ll learn about the best thing in humanity, in yourself—the desire to know—and also about what in oneself interferes with that best thing. And, as you read Eli Siegel’s powerful discussion of Charles Dickens, you will be experiencing… Read more