I can't speak for the European style, but I blame the New Yorker and NYT Magazine for this. Everyone wants to imitate their wandering impressionistic style beca

I can't speak for the European style, but I blame the New Yorker and NYT Magazine for this. Everyone wants to imitate their wandering impressionistic style because it's considered literary and "good". That said, this article absolutely does not seem to be an example of what I'm describing!