The Beast in the Bed
A Real-Life Tale of Home-Invasion
Josiah Duran
Keeping Christmas
The time for Christmas is now!
Subway Talk
Trapped in a subway with the king of hot takes
They Have a Good Thing Going
A review of the filmed Merrily We Roll Along.
He Was the Real Thing
I have only known Tom Stoppard in a small way, through reading his plays, which I’ve never even seen performed. And yet, when I saw the retrospectives and obituaries last week, I felt that a pillar had been knocked out of our cultural temple as English speakers. Stoppard was
Emotion Review - Unrequited Love
Imagine that you’ve been eating bland food all your life and suddenly you discover salt. It’s a revolution. The miraculous little mineral makes everything it touches better. How did you ever live without it?
But imagine that this particular salt you’ve discovered triggers a craving. You put
Gratitude
A Sermon
The High-School Essay Problem
There’s a problem that crops up for the argumentative writer which I call “the high-school essay problem.”
In high school, you’re taught—I was, at least—to stake out, early in your essay, a clear thesis. A claim you’ll go to bat for, a hill you’ll
Missing
You and I go back a long ways, back to kitchen counter conversations and air-conditioned afternoons. I paced the tile floors and sucked a spoon of peanut butter, you pounded water and leaned against the cabinets. We were young in those days, sure of ourselves. We had everything in the
I Saw Masquerade
And I liked it even better than Ariel's Undersea Adventure