Culture
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 was the final happy memory some soldiers would have. Today, in our polarized culture, ‘Joyeux Noël’ reminds us to soften…
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It’s said that our actions are based on immediate intuitions, informed by accumulated stereotypes. Are we merely puppets of inherited ideologies?
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Ishiguro has been praised for his unapologetic investigation of loss and hope, and the “inevitable sadness” inherent in his novels.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?
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Once resembling the relationship between a devoted father and an admiring son, Freud and Jung split over the question of culture’s origins.
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Language loss can be considered as extreme as the extinction of a plant or an animal—regarding indigenous languages in particular.
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Portuguese speakers commonly boast that “saudade” is untranslatable. Does that mean certain emotion experiences can be unique to a particular culture?
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Examining the ways in which we use the word ‘interesting’ unlocks a key understanding about human existence and how we experience the world.