Big Furniture, Small Staircases: Making an Apartment Move Work
Moving into or out of an apartment can be complicated even when the furniture is modest. Add an oversized sectional, a solid wood wardrobe, or…
Inside the new Afghanistan
The arrivals terminal of Kabul International Airport is cleaved by gender. Coalition forces rebuilt the airport during the occupation of Afghanistan, and it retains its modern style. But the Taliban…
How Tarot re-enchanted my life
I spent a major slab of my summer slowly and luxuriantly reading a huge, dense, and astounding book. Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism was first published…
Have you corrected your racist robot?
Last week, while vacationing in Lisbon, I found myself striking up a conversation at the hotel bar with a middle-aged couple who spoke English with a distinctly American accent (which…
Not now, Scots Nats!
“No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation. No man has the right to say to his country, “Thus far shalt thou go…
Stop binning your heirlooms
Middle-aged heirs are rejecting their parents’ prized possessions. “The children have no room for the oak furniture, they don’t want the silver card cases and we have to explain it…
Stop binning your heirlooms
Middle-aged heirs are rejecting their parents’ prized possessions. “The children have no room for the oak furniture, they don’t want the silver card cases and we have to explain it…
Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved
I dreamed about Mark Zuckerberg again. We were on a family holiday and he was just sitting there in the middle of our hotel room as I tried to get…
The great Covid reckoning
For six years, there was no accountability for Covid. How did the pandemic happen? Why was the response so economically, socially, and medically destructive? No one, it seemed, would be…
Why corpses shouldn’t be sacred
Earlier this summer, a funeral director was sent to prison for 20 years for his grossly negligent way with corpses. Not only did Robert Bush fail to cremate and bury…
Dolly Parton: head of the country class
The mountains spoke to Dolly Parton. Growing up in the deep green forests and dark hollers of East Tennessee, she listened to the rhythmic song of the whippoorwill, the steady…