Getting to Pocket Inbox Zero

Pocket is a fiendishly addictive metagame for reading that helps you read more than you normally would. But the game makes it difficult to engage deeply with text, and…

Why I’m not going back to Pakistan…just yet

On Keeping it Together in a Place that Tears you Apart

The class photograph

Pinned to the desk he’s writing on, in his nephew’s room, is a frame with a fourth-grade class photograph from the boy’s school last year. It isn't a single photograph, but individual passport-size images of all students, and of their class teacher, set to a common black background. There…