The Carly Simon song Coming Around Again figures significantly in the film. I was a huge fan when it came out. Now, Alanis Morissette and Carly Simon have teamed up on a duet, with Morissette taking ...

Here’s a list of some things that suck about recovering from elbow surgery: Constant vigilance about where I am, where my arm ...

The low mood works like a bad hallucinogen that turns your personal world into its dark, anemic twin, a landscape drained of good possibilities.

I first discovered Gillian Welch in 2011 in a record store in Sweden . Her recent Tiny Desk concert, with David Rawlings, reminded me of how much I like her music. Lines and paragraphs break ...

Nichols and May began their life together with an improvisation. It was a performance designed solely for their private entertainment, though it may well have also entertained, or astounded, a number ...

Efficiency emerges from keeping the personal separate from the professional. India operates differently. Here, the individual isn’t an atom; they’re a node in an interconnected web of relationships - ...

Danny Gregory writes about the events that befall us, and the marks they leave: Each of mine began as a kind of catastrophe — a crash, a fall, a diagnosis, a shock whenever I bit down hard. Each felt, ...

Of course the greatest thing that doesn’t suck is the support of those that love me: I have no idea how I do all this without them.

I can relate so much to this feeling that we are in the end who we are, that there seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end ...

Ten years ago in April, I wrote this to friends and family, in a regular newsletter about Catherine’s cancer treatment, subject line The Bones are Alrigh t: After a bone scan a few weeks ago (after ...

What’s missing in Hall’s essay is that it’s not enough to just break orbit from the mundane-but-survivable, because if that’s all you do, then there’s a danger of defining yourself as what you’re not ...

Christie George in The Emergency was Curiosity, channelling Jenni Odell in How to Do Nothing: ...