Sophie Mackintosh

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Stephen Reicher |Rafael Behr |Frances Ryan |Rachel Clarke |Sophie Mackintosh |Laleh Khalili | +5 more

The cost of pessimistic individualism was measured in tens of thousands of livesStephen ReicherProfessor of psychology at the University of St Andrews and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British AcademyGreat calamities often provoke reflections about the human condition. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 led people to reconsider their relationship with God, and compelled Voltaire to viciously lampoon Leibniz’s notion that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

May 3, 2024 | sophiemackintosh.substack.com | Sophie Mackintosh

There was a time where I lived with a raging panic inside of me. The panic was electric, however, and so it didn’t always feel bad, and so I didn’t always recognise it as panic. I thought that was just what it mean to be fully alive, and so if I was calm in the way I am feeling right now it would not be calm but would be a dulling – a tarnish on the shining, unbearable energy inside of me. I used to wonder what would fill the panic’s space, should it leave my life, and now I am finding out.

Apr 18, 2024 | l8r.it | Katherine Mezzacappa |Neil Blackmore |Sophie Mackintosh |Kuchenga Shenjé

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Jul 26, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Sophie Mackintosh

The Virgin Suicides has become a shorthand for a kind of girlhood, one which is warmly lit, observed voyeuristically, and deceptively brutal. I read Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel, following the tragedy of five teenage sisters who end their lives during one sleepy summer in Seventies Detroit, when I was a teenager myself.

Jun 16, 2023 | artreview.com | Sophie Mackintosh

The late American novelist transformed blood and horror into sublime visions of the American West through the prophetic power of languageWhen the news broke that American author Cormac McCarthy was dead at 89, leaving behind him twelve novels, five screenplays and two plays, the immediate reaction from his many readers and fans was to share the passages of his writing that meant the most to them.