Archive - agarwhale

A Conversation with Ellery

On madness, imagination, and The Notebook

Jun 20 •

January 2025

A few books I enjoyed in 2024

(In no particular order)

Jan 2 •

August 2024

Conversations in Home Depot

Featuring me, my mother, a toilet seat salesman, and a plague doctor

Aug 25, 2024 •

On "Bewilderment"

1. “Why are there so many books titled with abstract nouns?” my friend asked me, when I told him I was reading Richard Powers’ Bewilderment. It’s a good…

Aug 9, 2024 •

June 2024

On "The Overstory"

Jun 23, 2024 •

A strange but lovely conversation in a grey taxi

I arrive in a parking lot on a Friday afternoon.

Jun 15, 2024 •

May 2024

On "The Chrysalids"

And New Zealand, and John Rawls

May 25, 2024 •

August 2023

Good Evening, Vietnam

Reflections on WSDC 2023

Aug 8, 2023 •

July 2023

UWC Reflections, Part II

The good things

Jul 2, 2023 •

June 2023

Reflections on UWC, Part I

Jun 12, 2023 •

April 2023

The valorisation of suffering

On the overrepresentation of orphans in children’s media, and other social oddities

Apr 11, 2023 •

February 2023

If people wrote about other things the way they write about particle physics

Paying homage to K.A. Tsokos

Feb 25, 2023 •

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