V.S. Naipaul and the Impossibility of Going Home
A brilliant writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness.
All posts tagged: oxford
The Man Determining Humanity’s Future
Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg is using his whiteboard to calculate the world’s existential risks.
The Surprising Historical Significance of Fortune-Telling
On the way fortune-telling has served both to reify and subvert the logic of capitalist economics.
Only the Lonely
On what is lost when we spend our lives trying to avoid feeling alone.
Does Dressing Up Make You Smarter?
What happens to the mind when the body looks its best?
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?
The Orgasmic Highs and Suicidal Lows of a Self-Made Playboy
Chris Reynolds Gordon was a multimillionaire before losing it all and slipping into prostitution. Now he’s on a mission to win it all back.
