Time passes, print publications amass. I never realized before how much the accumulation of periodicals could remind a person that the end is inevitable.
Why is writing and reading about sex the source of so much discomfort and uncertainty?
Fourteen ships from around the world anchored in the deepest part of the Suez Canal and simply waited there. For eight years.
How to Have Sex with Multiple People at Once in a Chill Way
I decided I wanted to lie down and have people grope me gently, as though I were Marina Abramović performing Rhythm 0, unrated and uncut.
The Wellesley Sleepwalker and Robert Walser
While I understand the controversy, I wonder why more people aren’t first worried about the sleepwalker himself. I am, but that’s probably because he reminds me of someone: Robert Walser.
How to Talk about Climate Change, Part 3: Who’s Doing the Talking?
We need more women and more people of color to be studying, thinking, writing, and speaking about climate change. The stakes are high.
Traveling the Zero: Digital and Homesick
Whether or not video games are “art” has been the subject of a good amount of writing, but it would be difficult to classify Kentucky Route Zero as anything but art.
Completely Stopped: How a Fledgling Journalist was Short Shrifted by Full Stop
Quickly, like a bedbug, was I removed from the Full Stop offices, ushered forcefully by a large security guard out a side door which emptied into a disgusting alley.
How to Talk about Climate Change, Part 2: Uncertainty, Present and Future
People are more likely to take climate change seriously if they’re sitting in a hot room than if they are sitting in a cold one.
The corpses in the Creation Museum should be given their proper names: not Bill Nye and Ken Ham, but philosophy and sophistry. It’s this ancient animosity, not science against religion or faith against evidence, that animated their debate — and of the two, philosophy is by far the most dangerous.