On Friday, we will celebrate my son being born and me nearly dying. I assure you that it […]
Category Archive: Bodies and Minds
The body’s knowledge is a vital and dramatically neglected component of intellectual work. We offer this space for writing that sorts through what we learn (through exercise or illness or abuse or neglect) about our bodies as a thinking, laboring entities; or things that the physical reality of our bodies has taught us about other intellectual work.
So you know: I judge. I judge 87% of the time. People, especially. I had this revelation in […]
Let’s talk about jesuitical abstrusities. I am about to land in one. As I write this, I am […]
“There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, […]
I first met my father in my early thirties. It sounds like a classic case of Freud’s family […]
When I look back on adolescence, I don’t really remember high school. What I remember most is a […]
Every time I travel or go grocery shopping, I am inexorably drawn to Real Simple. Those glossy minimalist […]
…the feeling of the Guildhall, and of the tombs, and even of some of the manuscripts I look at, turned out to be a gregarious physicality. Eyebrows raised, lips pursed, they’re quite as curious about you as you are about them. The feeling you get is not quite time travel, but time evaporating. Not future shock, but past shock.