Letter No. 62: Includes tiny narratives, shards of story, and epigrammatic morsels of mordant observation. First, to all of my

Letter No. 61: Includes far more name-dropping than is customary. Walking into McNally Jackson Books in Soho, I nearly collided

Letter No. 60: Includes books and chai and something in the eye. Additional images from Dr Essai’s growing archive

Letter No. 59: Includes a book in a box, two really stupid characters, and more mystification than is customary This

Letter No. 58: Includes street politics, cryptic commentary, and strange use of hearts There are many ways to wage politics

Twenty-six years at Johns Hopkins University left me with profound regard for the human mind’s powers of comprehension. We

Letter No. 57: Includes charming crankiness, someone else’s essay reproduced in its entirety, a hummingbird, Beethoven, and phlox. I

Letter No. 56: Includes dense but luminous prose, at least one hard-to-pronounce name, and reference to the “oh wow” school

Includes mentions of a happy musician, a pissed-off musician, and a character with a pseudonym Elon Musk probably wants to

Includes repeated mention of Proust, plus a trampoline, lyrics used without credit from Stephen Stills, cave trolls, and Dune. Dr