Read #1. How the West made Berbers and Arabs into races.
Read #2. Why was the alphabet developed anyway?
Read #3. On lateral thinking.
I’ve always distrusted the form of the personal essay because I recognize the lie here, recognize how easy it is to put together a satisfying narrative conclusion about an incident in my life, one that delivers on a certain promise made to the reader — a satisfaction entirely built on smoke. These neat, pat resolutions at best can only describe one facet of one’s life, at one particular moment. Meanwhile the rest of you — these parallel lives — remain messy, untidy, ambiguous, complicated.
Read #4. A love letter to room service cheeeseburgers (lissennn…this the truth!)
Read #5. Common misconceptions (tells you a lot about the role of the ad industry)
I suspect the date is 2023