Mar 4, 2026
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8 min read
on the war in Iran
Oct 8, 2025
7 min read
on the Gaza flotilla
Sep 8, 2025
16 min read
on political crises, Edmund White, and dancing
Jul 1, 2025
9 min read
on love, art, and slowly trying to fix one's life.
May 21, 2025
5 min read
on the genocide.
May 13, 2025
Notes on violence, and thoughts on the times.
Mar 13, 2025
10 min read
What is independence, and is it what we need right now? Thoughts from Iceland, and Halldór Laxness’ Independent People.
Feb 25, 2025
12 min read
An earnest letter on the rise of Fascism. Including 'The Zone of Interest', 'Babylon Berlin', and a Nazi.
Jan 31, 2025
11 min read
Climbing pyramids, the Mayan holy book 'The Popol Vuh', and a letter about seeing beauty even in ugly times.
Dec 31, 2024
6 min read
Thoughts on writing, the year, swimming, 'It's a Wonderful Life', and just doing things.
Dec 17, 2024
What is despair, and how can art be a solution? Thoughts on depression, Hemingway, Edward Hopper, and Chicago.
Nov 6, 2024
Election thoughts. The newsletter version of a shoulder squeeze.
Oct 23, 2024
Seeing Joni Mitchell. Open yourself to music. Unapologetically experience joy.
Oct 8, 2024
War, Palestine, the struggles of moving, trying to find hope, and 'The Grapes of Wrath'
Aug 31, 2024
What is 'success' as an artist? What is the right or wrong life? Thoughts on 'Perfect Days', Rachel Cusk, Picasso.
Jul 31, 2024
July 2024 Letter. About families, war stories, myths, ghosts, codependence vs. independence, the messiness of the times.
Jul 22, 2024
A dispatch from the gates of the White House.
Jul 11, 2024
On the political crisis, President Biden, 'Democracy' and 'Fascism', George Orwell.
Jun 30, 2024
Letter for June 2024. On Writing, depression, Van Gogh, and the whole value of artmaking.
May 28, 2024
Reflections on love and loss. 'Spring in Central Park', by William Zorach.
Apr 22, 2024
25 min read
Reflections on doom-scrolling, trying to be happy, and being real about what phone time is: addiction.
Jan 31, 2024
Thoughts about a landmark birthday year, and a very scary world.
Dec 31, 2023
4 min read
Reflections on 2023.
Dec 14, 2023
Reflections on the war in Palestine, from a vigil.
Dec 8, 2023
Reflections on the Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer.
