Oct 21 2020

There was a time when I could tell you exactly how I was feeling. I had this innate sense of my own emotions. I look back on it now as a sort of superpower. But like any ...

Oct 19 2020

Upon hatching, the nymphs of the periodical cicada, genus Magicicada, retreat underground for two to seventeen years to prepare for their final metamorphosis. At the end of ...

Oct 14 2020

At this point it’s obvious that Americanness in the twenty-first century is less about work ethic, grand imagination, or high achievement than it is about continually ...

Oct 12 2020

On the April night when John Prine died, my father and I stayed up until 2:30 a.m. I was quarantining in my parents’ apartment in Massachusetts, a thousand miles from my home ...

Oct 7 2020

I learned about coronavirus in late January, the week before I flew to Los Angeles to visit Lizzy and cover an award show I didn’t end up attending. Before I left, Maria and I ...

Oct 6 2020

Suffering from a variety of obsessive-compulsive disorder that goes by the clinical name “scrupulosity,” I spent ages twelve through fourteen in a state of religious paranoia, ...