Self Aware

“A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote in his brilliant treatise on personhood, “is like a pattern drawn on a tightly…

When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) wrote to her mother one bleak January day, both women…

This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he…

This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book. In 1865 — a year before the…

The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that only hindsight ever knows each last — the…

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The morning after a relationship of depth and significance long bending under the weight of its own complexity had finally…

Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work…

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Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how…