On Drinking Tea
My good friend Annie Pecheva has just published a wonderful blog post on drinking tea. Annie translates a list of the twenty-four best situations in which to drink tea, taken…
Storytellers and Anthropologists
I’m currently in the middle of editing a book that I’ve been working on about the Tanimbar islands in Indonesia. I was in Tanimbar some twenty years ago as a fledgling anthropologist,…
The Pleasure and Difficulty of Writing
A piece about Tove Jansson, pleasure, and why we really shouldn’t suffer for our art.
