Locks and Lore: Siri Hustvedt on the Cultural and Literary Significance of Hair

Alexander M Zoltai:

Hair, forever misunderstood………

Originally posted on Longreads Blog:

I began the fifth grade with long hair, but at some point in the middle of the year I chopped it into what was then called a pixie cut. When I returned to school newly shorn, I was informed that the boy I liked, a boy who had supposedly liked me back, had withdrawn his affection. It had been swept away and discarded at the hairdresser’s along with my silky locks. I recall thinking that my former admirer was...