Living to Work in Severance
I’ve been laid off twice in my life. In the leadup to each, workplace conversations converged on a single...
Richard Powers’s Romanticism
In his Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novel Bewilderment, Richard Powers tells the story of Robin, a nine-year-old boy struggling to...
An Ode to the Haircut
How incredibly lucky one must be to get a haircut more than two even three times a year. Once...
The Gravity and Levity of How To with John Wilson
At least once a day, I stare at two of my most cherished possessions—a half-used can of Barbasol and...
Flashes of Light
The night before my youngest daughter was born in August 2020, I finished a round of revisions on my...
Love Among the Pods; Or, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Textual Intercourse
the only chance for happiness in this disastrous world … –Mary Wollstonecraft There’s a moment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s final,...