Lolita, Letters and the Language Instinct

Influential scientist Steven (The Language Instinct) Pinker names New Zealanders Brian Boyd and Denis Dutton amongst his exemplary practitoners contributing towards a third culture “convergence” of art and science. To Pinker, the Nabakov scholar and founder of website Arts and Letters Daily respectively, embody a third culture where “the sciences of the mind […] pipe in with insights that complement those of scholars in the humanities.”