Top Reads From Arts & Letters Daily

Top 5 Reads from Arts & Letters Daily [View this email in your browser]( If you're enjoying our weekly newsletter, please consider [supporting us.]( [Academe’s Extinction Event]( What's that you smell at the MLA? A noxious combination of failure, whiskey, and professional collapse. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Myth of Advice]( Successful people want to be helpful. But their advice sounds empty and canned — because it is. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Problem With Eternity]( It is undesirable and incoherent; it kills meaning and collapses value. Can this realization be liberating? --------------------------------------------------------------- [Foucault on LSD]( “Tonight I have achieved a fresh perspective on myself. I now understand my sexuality." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why So Serious?]( Wit, mockery, joking, buffoonery: The oldest monastic rule we know of forbade joking. Laughter has long had a dangerously democratic quality. Copyright © 2019 Arts and Letters Daily, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at Our mailing address is: Arts and Letters Daily 1255 Twenty-Third St, N.W.washington, DC 20037 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](