I'm reading one book a day for as long as this COVID-19 quarantine lasts. Here are the ones I read this past week. DAY 24: THE IDIOT I re-read Elif Batuman's acclaimed novel, The Idiot, because my friend had mentioned adding it to her Kindle—and by the end, wasn't impressed. It's not that I ... Read More
Quarantine Reading: One Book a Day (Week 1)
I gave myself permission to just be during the first few days of self-quarantine. If I were a more glamorous woman—or perhaps, just a better woman—this would've involved early mornings, stretching, meditating, and sweating (in a pastel Outdoor Voices co-ord, no less) before dressing up in a proper ... Read More
The Art of Distance
Yesterday marked my first full week working from home, and two weeks since I finally took COVID-19 seriously. Just three weeks ago I was another millennial contrarian convinced that the coronavirus was something over-dramatized; I dismissed it as another strategy of 21st-century yellow journalism ... Read More