Lay of the Land
The Practice of Contradiction
DADIMA PRACTICES yoga every day. She had been studying abroad in London and just returned to India when she began her practice, around the same time she married a naval officer. His Continue reading
Essays
Examined Life
Guests of Honor
AS WE ENTER NAMDAPHA NATIONAL PARK and Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, where sunlight first touches the Indian subcontinent, we begin to see them: butterflies,mostly solitary, sometimes in a tiny group, indifferent Continue reading
Meditation
The Spirit of Beyoncé
SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with Continue reading
Lay of the Land
After the End
MY NOTES FROM THE summer I spent in Samsø, Denmark, are mostly about its picturesque beauty. The island appears untouched by human hands—all windswept hills, silent beaches, shallows filled with languid purplish Continue reading
Feature
After Trugoy: Reflections on De La Soul
AND SOMETIMES WE find ourselves weeping I found myself writing on the cover of a notebook as a title, pretty sure, for this musical inquiry, this inquiry on music that has Continue reading