Behind the scenes

Beautiful strangers? I’ve known more than I deserve.I once met a guy in a cab from Mali to Guinea and, when we arrived at our destination...

I’m reading Sapiens right now. It’s a good book, but dense. I probably won’t finish it. Anyway, the author does a great job at framing hu...

In Common In the first note I wrote for Db I recommended Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. Especially t...

Last week I went to the grocery store like I was gonna rob the joint. I had a mask over my face, gloves on my hands and a steely focus on...

Did you ever play with wind-up toy cars as a kid? The ones where you’d twist the winder and then let it go? If you wound them up a little...

You’re probably reading this at home. It’s where I’m writing you from. (Hi.) Millions of other people around the world are here, too.Home...