How to Love Past Reason
Irrational ramblings and outbursts need not get in the way of love.
Dispatches
Comrades Seek Like-Minded Experts
I stressed I was not interested in joining their group but would like to write about their outdoors training, if they would let me, or else we could just say we had had a nice lunch, and I would go on my way.
Seven Words English Needs
Look at the holes in English vocabulary, and you realize what our culture lacks.
Seeds Hear the Rain Sing
How a seedling can hear the rain fall, and how the sound soothes away our stress.
‘Nuremberg’: Holocaust as Melodrama
In the end, the only thing to be done with a movie like this is to throw it to the wolves of Reddit.
The Commencement Speech Is Bigger Than We Know
Some way, somehow, commencement speakers come to embody the ideals and principles of millions of hard-working students who some way, somehow, want their ideals and principles embodied in the choice of commencement speakers across hundreds of institutions of higher education. Basic laws of probability tell us the majority of these choices will not match.
How Vines and Stories Intertwine
Who knew reading and gardening had such overlap?
The Marital Coffee War
“Coffee, Brown”
Our morning habits,
For Each of us,
A pot brews
Poured over,
Estranged
~a contribution by Andy, in the comments section
In his New York Times column, Judge John Hodgman fielded an…
AI Targets Writers and Editors
A few days ago, a man in Memphis messaged me by LinkedIn to ask if I was the person who had offered to help him market his book. When I said no, he showed me the email that offered to make his novel a smash hit.
Cross Words at the NY Times
A few weeks ago, the Sunday New York Times crossword was printed with an error. Mistakes had been made before, but in eighty-four years of cruciform puzzles, this was the first all-out disaster. The error meant that the clues and squares did not line up; the puzzle could not…