Essay

My response to sexual abuse and trauma had made people wonder. But the same response in the Ghomeshi complainants made people condemn.

On Ellen Seligman’s editing alchemy.

Sometimes you wind up in situations you never imagined you’d be in, and you do what you have to to get out.

How can we live without learning how to die?

How can something as trivial as one's hygiene rituals have such an impact on how happy or successful others perceive you to be?

Chess devoured my life, until I was sweating in a suit at the Bangkok Chess Tournament feeling myself slip into the void. 

The well person has the job of translating the images that the sick person has left behind as evidence.

Women instinctively read the danger written upon the city. 

Reading her work is the most pressing unfinished business of my career as a writer, yet I’ve avoided it for fear that witnessing its brilliance would reflect back my inferiority.