The Beautiful Faraway: Why I’m Grateful for My Soviet ChildhoodAt 10 I wanted to be an artist, practiced a hysterical form of Christianity, talked to trees, and turned a sunset at a local park into a…Sep 10, 2018Sep 10, 2018
Keeping It Real in the Ivory Tower: A ManifestoImagine walking up to your academic colleague in the humanities and saying: “I can’t wait to get the new book by X. It’s supposed to come…Aug 19, 2018Aug 19, 2018
The Zen of Consumption, or, Food as Aesthetic ExperienceWe often denigrate pulp fiction by saying it embodies a consumerist approach to art, that a thriller leads us to consume the book for plot…Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018