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What if you could start a canon from scratch ? New York magazine thought it'd be fun to try. Here's what a 21st-century canon might look like
Published: 18/09/2018What if you could start a canon from scratch ? New York magazine thought it'd be fun to try. Here's what a 21st-century canon might look like Read moreSource: www.vulture.com -
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Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, and the Laws of Patriarchal Physics
Published: 17/09/2018Jia Tolentino writes about two recent essays, by Jian Ghomesi and John Hockenberry, in Harper’s and the New York Review of Books, nearly a year after the start of the #MeToo movement. Read moreSource: www.newyorker.com -
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Across nearly 50 books, Terry Eagleton has proven the adage that being usefully wrong is often better than being trivially right
Published: 17/09/2018Across nearly 50 books, Terry Eagleton has proven the adage that being usefully wrong is often better than being trivially right Read moreSource: www.the-american-interest.com
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John Steinbeck was a bad husband. How bad? On his wedding night, he spent more than an hour on the phone with his mistress
Published: 15/09/2018John Steinbeck was a bad husband. How bad? On his wedding night, he spent more than an hour on the phone with his mistress Read moreSource: www.theguardian.com -
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In 1791, a depressed Austrian woman wrote to Kant seeking advice. She later killed herself. Oh, the folly of asking philosophers for practical advice
Published: 14/09/2018In 1791, a depressed Austrian woman wrote to Kant seeking advice. She later killed herself. Oh, the folly of asking philosophers for practical advice Read moreSource: the-tls.co.uk -
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What happens when two fiercely clever controversialists, skilled in the art of mandarin invective , clash on national TV?
Published: 13/09/2018What happens when two fiercely clever controversialists, skilled in the art of mandarin invective , clash on national TV? Read moreSource: www.laphamsquarterly.org
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The number of scientists is growing at a faster rate than the human population. Why haven't more scientists produced more discoveries?
Published: 12/09/2018The number of scientists is growing at a faster rate than the human population. Why haven't more scientists produced more discoveries? Read moreSource: www.project-syndicate.org -
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Meet the Data Thugs , the foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis. Are they saving science — or destroying it?
Published: 12/09/2018Meet the Data Thugs , the foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis. Are they saving science — or destroying it? Read moreSource: www.chronicle.com -
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Eleven-year-old Sally Horner was kidnapped in June 1948 and spent two years as the captive of an older man. Was this Nabokov's inspiration ?
Published: 12/09/2018Eleven-year-old Sally Horner was kidnapped in June 1948 and spent two years as the captive of an older man. Was this Nabokov's inspiration ? Read moreSource: www.weeklystandard.com
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A biographer’s plight: Philip Larkin was observant, romantic, and tender. He was also selfish, vulgar, and intolerant
Published: 11/09/2018A biographer’s plight: Philip Larkin was observant, romantic, and tender. He was also selfish, vulgar, and intolerant Read moreSource: the-tls.co.uk -
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The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism
Published: 10/09/2018An excerpt from Brian Dillon’s new book, “Essayism,” out this month from New York Review Books. Read moreSource: www.newyorker.com -
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The Village Voice is dead — sort of. Its cultural and political assumptions, once marginal, are now baked into the mainstream
Published: 10/09/2018The Village Voice is dead — sort of. Its cultural and political assumptions, once marginal, are now baked into the mainstream Read moreSource: thebaffler.com
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After the fall. What happened after jazz lost its cultural dominance , after it was sealed behind glass and rendered safe? It became more relevant
Published: 8/09/2018After the fall. What happened after jazz lost its cultural dominance , after it was sealed behind glass and rendered safe? It became more relevant Read moreSource: slate.com -
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Higher education has historically been a bulwark against authoritarianism — or its pawn. What will it be this time?
Published: 8/09/2018Higher education has historically been a bulwark against authoritarianism — or its pawn. What will it be this time? Read moreSource: www.chronicle.com -
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How far can common sense go toward answering philosophy’s most difficult questions? For J.L. Austin , the answer was quite far indeed
Published: 8/09/2018How far can common sense go toward answering philosophy’s most difficult questions? For J.L. Austin , the answer was quite far indeed Read moreSource: the-tls.co.uk
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Self-help and the apostles of positivity . Why do we demand the most conspicuous happiness from people with the greatest reason to be unhappy?
Published: 6/09/2018Self-help and the apostles of positivity . Why do we demand the most conspicuous happiness from people with the greatest reason to be unhappy? Read moreSource: thebaffler.com -
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We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
Published: 6/09/2018Comments Read moreSource: aeon.co -
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Modernism and the middle class once ruled the art world. No longer. The firewall between art and money has been abandoned
Published: 5/09/2018Modernism and the middle class once ruled the art world. No longer. The firewall between art and money has been abandoned Read moreSource: www.tabletmag.com
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In the late 19th century, female artists from around the world began making their way to Paris. They would emerge at the forefront of Impressionism
Published: 5/09/2018In the late 19th century, female artists from around the world began making their way to Paris. They would emerge at the forefront of Impressionism Read moreSource: www.thenation.com -
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Tolkien’s faith . He was explicit about the theological foundation of his work. But was Christianity at the heart of his greatest achievements?
Published: 3/09/2018Tolkien’s faith . He was explicit about the theological foundation of his work. But was Christianity at the heart of his greatest achievements? Read moreSource: www.christianitytoday.com -
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Myers-Briggs is an "instrument" to discern personality types. It's also a mass-produced tool of social control. And a tool of liberation
Published: 3/09/2018Myers-Briggs is an "instrument" to discern personality types. It's also a mass-produced tool of social control. And a tool of liberation Read moreSource: www.nytimes.com
