A Brief Introduction to Pessimism
This post was originally published on Medium. I once read that you can learn more from what has gone wrong than what has gone right. The idea is that a mistake presents myriad opportunities for...
View ArticleA Lunch With Pico Iyer
We’re sitting at the Raffles Courtyard in Singapore—chosen for its honouring of writers from Maugham to Malraux—as Pico tells us that when he travels he never spends much time bothering over what to...
View ArticleIn Myanmar, Learning What is at Stake in Our Travels
In the summer after my freshman year of college I travelled alone through Myanmar. I used as a guide not Lonely Planet or Trip Advisor, but Somerset Maugham’s book The Gentleman in the Parlour, his...
View ArticleReading Charles Brasch in Oxford
Colin McCahon, The Virgin and Child Compared (1948). Copyright Colin McCahon Estate. Collection of Hocken Library, Dunedin. Charles Brasch Bequest (1973). Charles Brasch’s contribution to the birth and...
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