Mind reading

An interactive guide to human emotions including 412 emotional states.

Language and Memory: forgetting our childhood

Simcock and Hayne argue that these memories simply are not ever encoded in language, and for that reason, never become part of an adult’s autobiographical memory.

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Modes of Quoting: Parody and Honkadori

The Kokinshu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry), the first Japanese royal anthology made in the beginning of 10th century, contains one thousand waka and thus, as it were, one thousand 'types' of emotion are thus registered, so to speak, to the world.

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

Kleinzahler celebrates Kenneth Cox

The literary essays of the Londoner Kenneth Cox are among the finest essays written by anyone, on any subject, in English. As pure writing — literature, if you will — these essays deserve to be read and reread as one would attend to the essays of Hazlitt or Joseph Mitchell.

Songs of experience

Kay Ryan has seconded this motion by pressing "the importance to the poet of avoiding or ignoring Kodak moments."