George Orwell chose to write Nineteen Eighty-Four while living in Barnhill [photo], an abandoned farmhouse on the isle of Jura in the Inner Hebrides. He noted in 1947, “The weather here is as disgusting as in England, but it isn’t quite so cold and a little easier to get fuel… These islands are one of [...]

Creative relationships, including romances, have inspired many artists, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, and Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.
[These are explored in a book by Vera John-Steiner, Creative Collaboration]
This scene from the film Sideways (2004) shows the kind of casual meetings - parties, wine tastings, dinners, whatever [...]