Arts & Culture
How My Mother Protected Us from My Father and Found Solace in Art
My mother described the Rembrandt paintings as her friends. I’d never heard anyone talk about art that way, instilling it with something like a personhood of its own.
Wherever the Limdi Grows: Growing Up Gujarati in Southern California
I deliberately and obstinately use the word ‘limdi’ and not the term ‘curry leaf’ because the word ‘curry’ has always bothered me.
Finding Home and Comfort in the Food of Korean American Chef Eunjo Park
Eunjo Park, the executive chef at Momofuku’s Kawi, is cooking her way through it. Her food is a reminder that it’s okay not to be one-hundred percent anything.
In an America on Fire, Baldwin’s Legacy Led Me to Paris
Just as America’s horrors led Baldwin to flee decades before, I waded through my own fear as a gay, black man coming of age in an America burning once again.
Can You Please Say Something in Khelobedu?
For me, Khelobedu is a language, a culture, home. For most South Africans, it doesn’t exist.
Finding Comfort and Confidence in the Wigs I Create
When I first meet a client, I usually remove whatever wig I happen to be wearing, and the tension settles.
How Rewatching ‘Charmed’ Helped Me Separate Magic From Mania
When palm trees swing in the soft breeze, I remind myself that my body is not an orchestra, and the trees are not dancing for me.
On Horror Movies and What It Means to Rewrite the Dead Girl
She is the page on which the story is written. Her body is a crime scene, and the victim of the crime, and the perpetrator of a crime, all at once.
Growing Mushrooms at the End of the World
A mastery of mushrooms and their uses could help me survive in a post-apocalyptic world—a world that didn’t feel all that far away.
Home Is Where the Taro Buns Are
How a small bakery in the Midwest gave me the Asian community I’d been searching for
