I’m always my father’s daughter, and I’ll always be a Somali girl. And that is the pride that you put in yourself, the pride of yourself and never lowering your worth. You don’t have to lower yourself. They’ll meet you where you stand. Iman (Originally published on April 8, 2021, this article was the most …
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche For those who write, watching a film by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke requires preparation: sitting down, meditating for a …
In the fall of 1978 I wound up on the mental ward of King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn, after attempting to kill myself. (That’s how I came to bump into the aforementioned serial killer, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam.) Ironically, I unconsciously used the same faulty method my literary idol, Henry Miller, attempted when he …
Are teenage dreams so hard to beat? Once you leave home, you can never go back. Yet when I was 19, I did; for weeks and weeks. At home everything seemed smaller – the stairs, my room, the bed. I was welcomed and resented. I suffered from persistent, low level stress. I felt like a …
We currently live in deeply sad times in which we are overly subjected to electronic devices. “Her” is a monumental film by the interesting director Spike Jonze, where he tells us the story of Theodore, a man who falls in love with a computer voice. Theodore works for a company that hires professional writers who …
