People
Division of Labor: When You Crave Order and Your Family Doesn’t
“My parents had a shared language I didn’t understand, messes I couldn’t always be there to tidy.”
Magic’s Three Acts, Penn & Teller’s Three Tricks
Magic deserves to be regarded as a high art, right alongside poetry, right alongside theatre.
Strange Grief: On The Leftovers and Departure
“The undefined, complicated, unresolved trauma makes us messy—how do we tell our story without an ending?”
Why Faith Is No Substitute for Honesty About Mental Health
“We could wrap our heads around theology and bullshit around a bonfire. What we never had was a vocabulary for fear.”
Sex, Frogs, and the New Political Order
“If you opened me up you would find no redness, no veins, only a political thunderstorm.”
My Hindu American Childhood: A Comic
“Age 13: I watch the opening of ‘Garden State’ and hear the only prayer I know and truly believe that Zach Braff gets me.”
Evolving the Monster: A History of Godzilla
“What bright flame has drawn our imaginations toward a creature that destroys lives on the other side of the sea?”
‘The Americans’ Is a Great Show, But Its Characters of Color Deserve Better
“The show’s characters of color appear rarely, briefly, subordinately, and often end up dead.”
