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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I found Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 especially compelling because of how closely the political and economic tensions of the 1920’s mirror those we see today. The book shows how…