Personal reckoning. Intellectual honesty. Writing that risks something — that reasons as well as feels, that complicates its own position.
On the Ship of Theseus, the narrative self, and what neuroscience actually tells us about who we are across time — and why it may not be what matters.
What happens to your sense of self when the place that made you refuses to claim you? A personal reckoning with belonging and the violence of belonging's absence.
Every language I write in changes what I am able to say. On translation, self-betrayal, and the strange gift of not quite belonging to any tongue.
If you don't have a word for an emotion, can you still feel it? Dispatches from the borderlands of language, culture, and inner life.
A philosopher and a neuroscientist sit across from each other with the oldest question. Neither wins, and that turns out to be the point.