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Last year, I recommended that we all spend a bit more time in nature. I took my own advice and tried to hit every hiking trail in the Triangle this year. (That's almost impossible, of course.) I also…

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century by Bianca Mabute-Louie. I really enjoyed reading this book about exploring the complex identities of being asian from an anti-…

Read Dangerously: the Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi is an exploration of imagination and indifference in dictatorships and democracies and how we meet our enemies in…

I have a friend who says he likes waffles, but really he likes syrup—waffles are just the vehicle. I'm the same way with an Apple TV series I just finished called Slow Horses, which is based on a…

For the last 5 years, I have pursued the goal of reading everything written by Ursula K. LeGuin. The worlds that she created are expansive and complex, yet the wisdom shared in each story is simple…

Kafka's aphorisms were written during a tubercular convalescence at his sister's countryside home in 1917-1918 that were perhaps the happiest and most relaxed eight months of his life. Consequently,…

Homeland: My father dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck is a beautiful picture book that celebrates Palestinian culture and life, specifically as it relates to the author's family history.…

I have been a fan of Kevin Wilson's writing since I read The Family Fang in 2011. So much so, that (should I be embarrassed about this? I'm slightly embarrassed) I wrote him a fan email during Covid…

I walked past Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson for years (it was published in 2019), consistently unmoved by its cover art—a pair of legs in red underwear with flames rising upward, the rest of…

The What Went Wrong podcast deep dives into the production of famous blackbusters, B movies and straight up flops, digging into behind-the-scene drama and reasons why making movies is sometimes…