The Morality of Language
Does speaking in a second language make you a more moral person?
All posts tagged: culture
Your Brain on Beauty: A Neurological Defense of Aestheticism
Why is art with themes and readily available meanings so often privileged above pure aesthetic beauty?
Beautiful and Damned: On Growing Up with F. Scott Fitzgerald
With the writers we read again and again, our interpretation of their stories and legacies tends to change over time.
Commercializing the Counterculture: How the Summer Music Festival Went Mainstream
On the new style of summer music festival and the rise of the capitalist bohemian.
Distinctly Emasculated
On Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the sexual anxiety of the Lost Generation for The Paris Review
The Depressing Downside of Creative Genius
The neurology behind why creatives are so often depressed — and why they tend to make awful lovers
Loneliness or Freedom? The Existential Conflict of the Modern Expatriate
On the expatriate’s experience and her existential dilemma
