Tara Isabella Burton is a contributing editor at American Purpose and author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (Public Affairs, 2020). She is also a columnist on millennial religion for Religion News Service. Her debut novel, Social Creature, was published by Doubleday in 2018.
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Selfies at Fiume
Our modern performance art looks a lot like the antics of Gabriele D’Annunzio—with no concerts or poetry readings but lots of fireworks.