Readings

Talking to the author of The Kidnapping Club about narrativizing a history many tried to keep quiet and why New York was such a potent pro-slavery city.

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, and I do believe in taste, but I also believe in context.

It’s comforting to know that in the annals of history, my day-to-day personal suffering won’t show up at all. Unfortunately, in the present, the details are apparent, if only to me.

Some find comfort in conspiracy; I’ve found it in asking the same questions about plants and insects and mold my seven-year-old self might.

When there is a ritual, life makes sense. 

Why, a decade ago, did my father give me the heavy gift of a controversial 100-year-old Oswald Spengler tome? It took a pandemic for me to find out.

The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.

The author of Bestiary on mythmaking, how grossness co-exists with beauty, and changing your destiny.

During quarantine, I've been trying to remind myself that I've always been able to find inspiration for a better life.