What drives you as an artist and scholar? I am interested in the human experience of intimacy, in its various forms and complications. Often, my artistic practice is driven by tensions in my own life.

People will experience a lot of relationships that make a deep impression in their minds. The experience of intimacy plays a part in human life. A book called Intimate provides a really good ...

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...