What dog-sitting taught me about joy, guilt, and moving forward

Decentering men is an ongoing internal project that requires you to push back on your conditioning.

A fascinating painting with rich iconography

Women reinventing themselves through work and art in midlife. Now published monthly on the first Thursday of the month.

Part One

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Small collections on interesting topics.

Trad-Wives, Wellness Movements, Whatnot

We talk about the long road that has brought us to end times fascism, and why it’s time for a “triple disarmament” movement

The Conundrum

Reflections and Engagements for Chapters 7 and 8 (and two book discussion announcements!)

For Tucker. For Bunker. And for all of us who know exactly why.

Why social points aren’t tipping points

Recording of live-stream reading of Deleuze’s Cinema 1, chapter 2. The first level: Frame, set or closed system

As usual, paid subscribers will find a Teaching Coda towards the end of this essay: this one comparing Séraphine Louis with Henri Rousseau as two “self-taught” painters who lived out completely different versions of the same label.

Edition: October 2026

Giovanni Bellini, c.1476–78 — The Frick Collection, New York

The live event happened on October 3, 2026. Now, you can watch it here. Enjoy, Great memoirs, great talent!

Because they’re dogs.

What Sartre and Beauvoir can teach us about imagination, freedom, and AI

What if discovering an artist didn’t begin in a gallery, at an art fair or through an algorithm, but with somebody you know handing you a piece of their work?

A tool to help you make embodied decisions

The power dynamics of holding an audience.

Siren Classics

Why are we comfortable rewarding intellect but uneasy about desiring it?

We have now read the entirety of Part One of Heidegger’s What is Called Thinking?, and we are still left asking the question, ‘What is called thinking?’

The delightful parts of borrowing a dog

(With a bonus full moon to boot)

What to send, what to skip, and a real artist pitch we said yes to!

What’s in a good book?

a diary post

Why philosophers are the high priests of knowledge

After keeping score with her fellow 70-somethings, Sarena Neyman confronts her internalized ageism.

Plato’s warning for an age of algorithms

let’s make the internet our playground again

abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide

Grand Palais, Petit Palais, Musée d’Art Moderne, Perrotin, David Zwirner, Yvon Lambert, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Almine Rech, Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Finally, some good news

Journalism, and its adversaries.

Things to read, do, and send to your besties this month

Priya Parker on Substack