If Art Doesn't Make You Feel Something, Does It Even Exist?

Tolstoy didn't think so. I'm not sure I do either.

When was the last time a book, a film, a painting or a song profoundly, intensely, moved you? Not something that made you cry or feel intense joy, but that deeply shook you to your core.

It’s difficult these days, with all the noise and distraction, to even find a moment to be moved. But it does happen. There are still moments, rare though they might be…