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The purpose of life, it seems abundantly clear, is to charge your devices.
Shouldn’t we expect more from our arts? From what should be the pinnacle of our culture?
For reasons that escape my understanding, most students aren’t taught the conventions of contemporary English writing.
There’s an assumption that today’s acclaim will never be esoteric or forgettable or even uninteresting to future generations.
To spend the majority of your time crafting artificial symbols on a surface—whether your medium is stone, paper, or pixels—will always be a curious behavior.
Later is a word for when you’re feeling sluggish and directionless and just a little bit glum, for when you’re avoiding what you must confront.
Nothing makes you doubt the merits of a music education more than a neighbor who takes up the violin.
To care about the state and quality of writing today is to scream into a void while knowing that the void does nothing but laugh.
An unfinished project is a taunt to danger.
The spot where there begins because here has ended.
How does distance affect our perception of time?
You might recognize these undulations if you’ve ever struggled with a new language.
What it takes to finish the novel.
Apparent victims always give you the most remarkable looks—and I do write from experience.
How does speed change our perception of distance?
Here is a relentlessness that must be resisted.
When you tell stories about your home, the stranger hears a travel narrative.