Changing Rituals: A Conversation with Nancy Jo Sales
Nancy Jo Sales on the changes of childhood and the irredeemability of Facebook.
All posts tagged: culture
Re-thinking the Coming-of-Age Tale
How can you go about finding out ‘who you really are’ if the whole idea is a cultural fabrication?
The Morality of Language
Does speaking in a second language make you a more moral person?
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
