This was originally published here. I’m curious as to whether or not we’re experiencing an as-yet-undefined ‘returning home’ of the tourist-as-narrator when we look at the works of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. …

How accurate is a NBA2K simulation in terms of what we might see in a month’s time? The video we’ve placed at the top of this text looks like basketball, but how much of it is basketball? That question leads to other questions — questions like, “Is it ……

Hi, friends — I want to put some charts and images together to urge you to either stay home this Thanksgiving or to take a lot of precautions in the run-up to Thanksgiving and beyond.

A few hasty late night thoughts at the dawn of a new political era: 1. Power analysis is complicated! Don’t lose sight of trying to “get it right,” even amidst the often necessary urgency of the present. Consider: Blackrock is a huge company whose investments help drive pollution. But how…

The last time I had a cigarette was on New Year’s Eve. A frigid Scotland night. A friendly bouncer occasionally dipping inside the…

This is an edited version of a longer piece. (There’s a greater personal dimension to this story.) Eviction moratoriums have since lifted in Massachusetts since this was written. What’s been set up to help folks as the eviction moratorium lifts is insufficient and under strain. …

The fulsomeness of New York. Buildings rising into verdancy in Medellin. A sunset as seen from Twin Peaks in San Francisco, the sun gently filling up the bay in the distance. The suburban quiet of Rowville, Australia. Bavarian hills maintaining their exact sense of self as someone drops some silverware…

My friend, I know any non-physical voice in a moment like this feels like a cardboard prop, something far off and far away, but I need you to suspend that filter for a second. I need you to believe that you’re surrounded by sweat fleeing New York City cops with…

Truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense. — W.H. Auden, “New Year Letter” Walter Benjamin spoke of an “angel of history” in his unpublished-at-the-time essay, “On The Concept Of History,” writing that — His [that is, the angel’s face] face is turned toward the past. Where…