Play That Thing
…you see the secular sacred of their work spaces. And center of it all, in these working shrines — the typewriter. Not to make too much of the thing, of…
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God Is Change
…Park’s work in these essays: identifying the uncanny overlaps between conflicting beliefs and gently prodding at the heart of them. While Park wasn’t raised in the evangelical tradition and often…
Honoring Grief, History, and Family
…boots in summer to protect us from chiggers, poison ivy, and snakes — and then we enjoyed the riches of the harvest. My grandmother canned them, froze them, we had…
Disaster-Colored Glasses
…you can’t get all indignant because it turned out differently. There is no differently. There’s only the way it turns out. There’s only the ending that was always going to…
Lost Causes
…and improper. The more and better that alternative could be explained, especially through theories of race or science, the more that the heterosexual imperative could be affirmed as the natural…
A Necessary Political Act
…themselves with those groups. Although the essays in the collection are drawn from the past decade, none of them feel dated. In “Hate That Doesn’t Hide (On Trump’s Presidency),” originally…
