Year in Review

The Year in Being Orphaned

It's strange to have moments of gratitude for something that’s slowly ruining a person you love.

The Year in Absent Endings

The things we hope for in life—stability, moments of unexpected joy and recognition, the creation of a kind of legacy—are the same things many of us look for in what we read, and in what we write.

The Year in Islamophobia

Islamic terrorism hasn’t occurred in a vacuum. If people wanted to hear from Muslims, they could have asked us a long time ago.

The Year in Fuckable Power

Desire humiliates you; channel it upwards.

The Year in Scarlet and Grey

The homogeneity in a week’s worth of Midwestern skies is rivalled only in the unspooling of a single day.

The Year in Sobbing Towards Change

Why do something if you're just going to cry about it? 

The Year in Literature of Urban Disquiet

Cities change, and the way that writers write about them changes as well. A place's past can act as a kind of call to arms, or it can become the backdrop for a different kind of story.

The Year in Reading Infinite Jest

I wouldn't be depressed so long as I had this insurmountable mission in front of me. 

The Year in Ice Thickness

Why, in the face of an unquantifiable disaster, are we talking about numbers at all?

The Year in Coming Close

The month that Blue Jays pitchers and catchers reported to spring training marked the first anniversary of my husband and I trying to have a baby.