Essays

Essays and notes on books, films, photographs, memory, and ordinary life. Some pieces begin with a sentence I can’t shake; others with an image, a room, a walk, or a film scene. This is where I stay with those things long enough for thought to arrive.

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The Life That Carries Us

In Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, Julie does not seem like the worst person in the world. This matters because the title prepares us for a moral judgment the film never quite gives. It does not ask us to condemn her. It asks us to watch her move through a life that will not hold still long enough to become clear.

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