A Rage to Live

That so much night could exist within a city entranced me.

So Much Grows

Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.

The Lie of the Rules-Based Order: An Interview with Omar El Akkad

The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on euphemistic violence, Western hypocrisy, and personal complicity.

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A Rage to Live

That so much night could exist within a city entranced me.

So Much Grows

Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.

The Lie of the Rules-Based Order: An Interview with Omar El Akkad

The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on euphemistic violence, Western hypocrisy, and personal complicity.

scorpio moon

after Black Belt Eagle Scout’s ‘Scorpio Moon’

The Demagogue’s Vocabulary: An Interview with Carol Off

The veteran journalist and author of At a Loss for Words on how leaders have—and do—use language to sow the seeds of discord.

Let's Not Pretend

On women in Antonioni’s films

Brat Girl Summer

Charli xcx brings the club to the world.

Land of Five Rivers

Partition, climate change, my grandmother, and me.

Staying In

On writers in movies.

Fractal / Flood

a found poem from the Letters of William Blake (1980)

When it Comes to Cookbooks, Who's a Critic?

 A good cookbook can be mind-opening, read for or looked at for pleasure, despite having middling recipes. An excellent one can be a tool and art one in the same.

The Inside is Rotten

As our collective fears shift, so too do the monsters that stand in for them.