Courtesy | Unsplash Harper Lee never wanted to publish her “newest” short stories, but maybe she should have. HarperCollins released “The Land of Sweet Forever,” a collection of eight short stories and eight nonfiction pieces written by the late Harper Lee, for the first time last month. The stories, discovered in her New York City...
Memento Mori, “To This Favour,” by William Michael Harnett, 1879. Courtesy | Unsplash You will die. We like to ignore this inconvenient fact. The morbid and macabre are improper in pleasant conversation. Our language has more than 200 euphemisms for “die,” such as “pass away” and “bite the dust.” But despite our best efforts to...
Courtesy | Unsplash Imagine: Four men pull up to the Louvre Museum with two scooters and a ladder. They slice through the window into a glittering, gilded gallery and snatch France’s priceless crown jewels. They’re gone in less than seven minutes. This isn’t “Ocean’s Eleven.” It’s an October morning in Paris. After a year of...
Courtesy | Unsplash Researchers have pinpointed a phenomenon they call the “helper’s high,” which is a bit like a “runner’s high” except it doesn’t require excruciating suffering to attain. Allan Luks, the former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health, wrote a book with Peggy Payne called “The Healing Power of Doing...
Courtesy | Unsplash If Helen Andrews is right, this Opinions page is a reign of terror. Andrews, a conservative political commentator, made gender-pessimism go viral this month with her essay, “The Great Feminization,” in Compact Magazine. In the piece, Andrews advances the existing theory of the “Great Feminization,” which she deems the “most significant event...