[ad_1] Like any true-crime sleuth, I began my own online investigation into what had happened to my father and whether he was still alive. But being a man with big secrets, he’d left no footprint behind, not even a White Pages entry. My half-brother, though, was a different story. So, using an alias and an […]
[ad_1] Despite the calm and the quiet, libraries are also dangerous and subversive places. They exist to pass on not just pleasure and information but new ways of thinking and viewing the world. Books, especially novels, ask the reader to people-travel, to take on the skin of another person and imagine the world through their […]
When it’s late, when I’m bored or feeling insecure or nosy or destructive, I follow the pad of my thumb to one place I have no good reason to go: Megan’s Instagram. It’s an endless grid of Frenchie puppies, wine bars in the inner north, trips to Whistler, 30th birthday parties, hollow cheekbones, and daily […]
