How to Keep Beginning Again
The Yearly Trick of Looking New
How to Make Perfect
Again and Again
How to Leave Your Child
You bring him home from the hospital, in our case so early that you haven’t yet bought him a bed.You look at him, inscrutable in a quickly assembled...
How to See
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963When’s the last time you looked closely at something?The Jack Shaiman Gallery’s decision to split its “Gordon Parks: Half and...
How to Remember
Stories We Can't Stop Telling
How to End a Year Without Time
Come with me
How to Have (a Little) Hope
We were looking for a place to lock up our bikes when we heard the cheering and the honking and the banging on pots and pans. My wife and I were in the...
How to Make Masks
On crafting Halloween
How to Be an Adult
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942)Endings these days feel rare but are nevertheless everywhere. While replenishing our allergy meds, I noticed that...
How to Take a Test
When the choices don't seem that multiple
How to Talk to Yourself in a New Place
Welcome
How to Pass Time
Days are all middle now. No part of the week feels different from any other, any instant could be any part of any day. In the 120+ days of quarantine, we’ve...
