The Year of Numbered Rooms: Notes from the Station Eleven tour
The year before you were born, my love, I traveled constantly. It was sometimes magnificent and sometimes numbing. I was very tired, but there were moments of grace.
The Gone Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Train: Why Do So Many Books Have ‘Girl’ in the Title?
Spoiler alert: I have no idea why so many books have ‘girl’ in the title. But some of the numbers are fascinating.
Notes on Regarding Susan Sontag
Sontag once wrote, “What makes me feel strong: being in love, and work.” All she wanted was everything.
You'll Probably Never Catch Ebola — So Why is the Disease so Terrifying?
It’s a danger I’d rank well below, say, the ever-present possibility of being hit by a car on my way to work in the morning. This possibly says more about New York City drivers than it does about Ebola.
A Closed World: On By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By Grand Central Station is a staggering accomplishment, an exquisite and often ecstatic rendition of a tumultuous affair: “Jupiter has been with Leda, I thought, and now nothing can avert the Trojan wars. All legend will be broken, but who will escape alive?”
The Bulldozing Powers of Cheap
On the novelist and former textile manufacturer Edoardo Nesi's Story of My People, clothes as armour, and the unspeakable cost of cheap fashion.
I Await The Devil’s Friend Request: On Social Media and Mary MacLane
We live in a performative age. What participation in social media comes down to, I think, is that either you have an instin