"It is that time of year when the white silence allows me to look inward and outward. And to me, wintering is a knife disguised in icicles."

Art is about reality but our idols' silence on the Israel-Palestine conflict does not reflect that reality.

In which CX writes/daydreams about a coffeeshop they want to go back to, again and again.

As movies, Anak and Distance illustrate two opposite extremes of the challenging reality of motherhood in the Philippines.

"I Am So Worried About How Coders Describe Us to the ChatGPTs," writes sociolegal researcher, writer, and plum farmer, Terry Trowbridge.

How might Amazon’s “rightsizing” warehouse book supplies shape the global economy for freelance editors, proofreaders, and editorial workers

Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel Normal People is a heartbreaking journey featuring intimacy, pain, and the social dynamics of human connections.

The Israel-Palestine conflict should lead us to reflect on pacifism and its ally, storytelling, for justice.

Shkumbin Limani is a "life photographer" who tells stories through pictures

About Glück's quiet affirmations of life.

Once upon a time, she was a witch; centuries later, her memorial plaque reads, "An innocent victim of unenlightened times.”

Callum Foulds talks office pop!

Movies to make you feel warm and cozy all fall long.

by Anwesha Dutta There’s a certain kind of feeling that comes over us when we listen to a good pop song. Heads begin to roll, bodies...

What do internally displaced people want to save, want to preserve, and want to carry?

A review of Oliver Sacks' 1985 book featuring compelling stories of patients grappling with extraordinary neurological conditions.

In which CX analyses familial relations and their breaking down by way of a good (and totally aware that this is happening) friend.

I believe procrastination must torture. It must lead to feelings of doubt and failure, ultimately it doesn't count unless it's self sabotage

A personal essay and reflection about the art of belonging from the perspective of an immigrant.

"Grieving who you were before and where you imagined you would be can be draining."