There is a particular kind of family dynamic that has been quietly accumulating across most Western households over the last two decades, and the standard
There is a particular kind of family estrangement that the wider cultural conversation has tended to miss, because it does not look like what most
There is a particular kind of adult who moves through the world saying “please” and “thank you” without any apparent calculation, and the standard cultural
There is a particular kind of family visit that adult children in their thirties, forties, and fifties conduct regularly, and that the wider cultural conversation
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Hemingway said this in The Garden of Eden, near the end of his life. The
My dad bought a camcorder sometime in the 90s. I remember it as a real moment in the house. The the camera itself came with
There is a particular form of self-respect that the wider cultural register has, on the available evidence, almost entirely failed to name. The form is
There is a particular structural experience that most adults in their forties and fifties encounter, on close observation, that the wider cultural register has been
There is a particular relationship that most adults in midlife and beyond are conducting, almost continuously, without quite registering that they are conducting it. The
There is a particular kind of adult who, on close observation, is genuinely difficult to knock off course. The adult is not, in most cases,
I am thirty-eight and I have spent, on close examination, considerably more of my adult life than I would prefer to admit inside the wider
I am thirty-eight and I have, in the last few years, been watching a particular kind of adult in their forties and fifties around me