Seth Colter Walls

Seth Colter Walls has written for Slate, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog. Yes, he lives in Brooklyn.

Sartre for Sartre’s Sake

Seth Colter Walls

May 3, 2014

Issue no. 23

We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939–1975 (New York Review Books, $24.95, edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian van den Hoven) Jean-Paul Sartre’s chief political fidelity was not pledged to Communism, or Marxism, or even the amorphous ...

Simone de Beauvoir’s Les Belles Images

Seth Colter Walls

February 3, 2014

Issue no. 20

An ad-agency savant is known for composing inspired campaigns on the fly. After work hours, bouts of heavy drinking alternate with bedding extramarital partners who are left begging for more. Then this world-by-the-gonads member of the creative class heads home and puts the ...