I always thought there was something half-baked in Bertolt Brecht’s formulation of the “alienation effect.” First, there is a discrepancy between what he aims for and the method he proposes to get ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1943 Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka exhibited an immense, violent painting of a crucifixion called What We ...