The Tyranny of the Self Writing, Recognition, and the Moral Anxiety of Intellectual Life The Manuscripts Left in Silence There comes a point in the life of a writer when the central struggle is no …
Islands emerge in novels and poems as mythical, seductive places; they are separate from the mainland in a way that could be a punishment or an escape, or sometimes both. They are places of nostalg…
It’s a freezing early December night in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and 500 Arlo Parks fans slowly shuffle into the converted garage SILO to hear… On her third album, Arlo Parks finds true love
My father described his infidelities “playfully, with only a dash of contrition.” That is a sentence I wrote in my novel The Monuments of Paris, and it is also, as closely as I can render it, somet…
Desire vs. Arousal: Why You Can Be Wet But Not Wanting, or Hard But Not Horny The Difference Between Physical Arousal and Genuine Desire You know the feeling. You’re touching her. She’s wet …
Russell’s destiny as an ethical thinker was dominated by one book—G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903). Before 1903, Russell devoted some of the energy that he could spare from German Social Democracy, the foundations of mathematics and the philosophy of…
Sparks fly in this homoerotic dance of desire and betrayal, from a powerful new voice in Irish literature Toxic masculinity, that repressed and repressive male energy that does so much to fuel brutality and abuse, sometimes finds itself on the brink of a…
