A Year in Reading: Kamil Ahsan
The majority of it was probably to offset the noise around me—but a not-insignificant minority was for inspiration, and for optimism.
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Lives We Could Live but Don’t: The Funnel Crisis and the Slow Burn of Academia
One day you realize that every colleague with whom you entered graduate school who wanted to be a tenured professor in biology actually swore off academia.
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On Nature Writing in a Filthy World
Purdy’s broader point is key: Whatever this genre, “nature writing” has made a comeback, just as more complicated works of un-nature sit beside them.
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Write What You Know? Identity Politics and Fiction
It requires a peculiar moment in contemporary culture when certain white male writers can decry that their jobs are harder as white men than if they were minorities. In that way, storytelling as with most things bears a truly striking institutional likeness—to the extent that the enterprise of writing and publishing is an institution—to our current politics.
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