Articles from the author

It is hard to give up the idea we can understand what makes us happy — and thus create more of it

It is the sameness of airports that is precisely their intrigue

The idea of consolation supposes not only that our lives depend on things outside of us — luck, the benevolence of others — but that the world outside of us can provide us help just when we need it

We’ve come to think that most of what happens on the internet is tossed off, inchoate, pleasurable maybe but ultimately insignificant. We rarely imagine emails can be works of art