How Things Are Done
The way restaurants work has never been fair — yet everyone just seems to accept it.
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ReadBeyond the Distance
What makes a country great? Surely the answer doesn’t lie in vast tracts of forest land that have been converted into concrete megastructures -
ReadI Keep Counting Up
Four weeks. Four weeks and still the virus. Things that were once normal now seem absurd. -
ReadThe Way we Are Buried
The true cost of dying lies beyond the sick. It buries itself in the people who try to love the sick. -
ReadThe Scent of Oud
I detected — above the waft of Auntie Anne’s pretzels and the affront of vanilla and eucalyptus from Bath and Body Works — the warm, musky scent of oud. -
ReadForeign Domestic
We live where the fog used to gather every morning, curtaining the streets and freeways in a misty haze. -
ReadMiseducated: Encounters with Blackness and Whiteness
When the Ferguson shooting and protests erupt in 2014, I am stuck in my own cocoon, mourning recent betrayals in my marriage. -
ReadEpiphanies
Before my jaw surgery, I got used to doctors holding my face in their hands. -
ReadThe Eye in his Head
In a tiny village in Southern Poland named “Mała,” a Catholic priest sexually abused dozens of underage girls -
ReadHolding Patterns
Today I’m too angry to know what to do with myself, so I take a very hot shower and listen to loud music -
ReadBecoming a Bridge Person in Precarious Times
I’ve been thinking a lot about bridges over the past year. -
ReadInheritance
The Great Patriotic War came to visit me again today. I was throwing out wild raspberries. -
ReadQueer is a Verb
In 2007, I had just freshly graduated from high school. I was a year ahead of my class and had put in the extra work due to acute boredom
