Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: People everywhere are hoping for love. Meanwhile, after failed relationships, they wonder, as I did: What am I doing wrong? Read the kind answer Aesthetic Realism gives to this troubling question in “The Beauty of Art & the Pain about Love.” Editor Ellen Reiss explains that the mistakes people… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What world-significance is in this issue, “What Impels?,” of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known! Present in it are Sappho, Homer, Virgil, Victor Hugo—and you’ll be in the midst of the most important question of our time: What is the thing making for the distress of people and of nations? Is there a fight every… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO is titled “What Our Minds Are For,” and it’s urgently needed by everyone—including leaders of nations! Aesthetic Realism’s great understanding of mind is in this issue—the way of mind that makes for art, and the way of mind that causes distress and also makes… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “This, Too, Comprehended at Last,” the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, is about a matter that has excited people, puzzled them, and also brought them much pain. The issue publishes Eli Siegel’s mighty essay “Why a Man Gambles”—an essay which, as it looks with critical… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “The Two Powers,” explains something that affects us all. To be alive is to want power—but what kind of power? You’ll be thrilled to learn 1) what differentiates good power from bad—anywhere, from personal life to economics; and 2) how Christopher Marlowe’s bold, exciting play The Tragical… Read more

Marion Fennell, singer with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes about Carrie Wilson’s talk “What Can Art Teach Us about Love?: Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party”: Like other women, I hoped for love in my life. I also liked to draw and paint–but never dreamed there was any relation between my care for art… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: The new issue of TRO, “Poetry, Ourselves, & What Reality Has,” is richly surprising and kind. Do you know how much meaning things and people can have for you? You’ll have a new sight of how much through this issue. Here, some important poems—and also large matters in the world… Read more

Matthew D’Amico, Aesthetic Realism associate, says: With the 2023 baseball season in full swing, people all over our country are going to ballparks or watching televised games—and cheering for their teams. And amid all the hubbub and feeling, there’s Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock rule, instituted to speed up the game. Why has this… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A new and big experience awaits you in this latest issue of TRO, titled “Can Incongruity Be Seen Beautifully? Yes.” Do we use what doesn’t seem to make sense in life, the incongruous, to see the world as against us—to tell ourselves reality is something to have contempt for? Meanwhile,… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Aesthetic Realism is the education that shows the deep, organic, tremendously hopeful relation between poetry and our lives! That is what this current issue of TRO is about. And you’ll learn about a fight within everyone, which people haven’t understood: How much do we want to… Read more