The Deferred Adulthood You refresh the banking app for the third time in an hour, though the number has not changed, could not have changed,

The Diploma on the Wall That No One Believes The email arrives at 4:47 on a Tuesday afternoon, and you read it three times before

The Unaccompanied Body in Public Space You slide your passport across the counter and the clerk’s eyes flick up, past you, toward the door, as

The Body Before the Word You are standing between two cedars, and you did not decide to stop walking, your body decided for you. Somewhere

The Manufactured Self and Its Discontents You have been walking for three hours before you notice that no one has looked at you all morning.

The Threshold Beyond the Village Gate You step past the last fence post at the edge of the cleared field, the one that marks where

The physiology of the unwitnessed self You notice it around the third day, usually, though the timeline varies by temperament. You are alone in a

The Mountain as Palimpsest: Geological Time and Human Settlement You place your hand flat against a wall of limestone in the Majella and feel nothing

The Merchant Class as Unclaimed Territory A father sits at the head of a table that cost more than the church tithe, calculating what his

The garage and the mortgage The porch light comes on at six every evening, whether anyone is out there to see it or not, because

The duration of the shot as ethical stance You sit in a theater and watch a man walk across a muddy courtyard for four minutes.

The Myth of the Undiscovered South You arrive in Alberobello a little after four in the afternoon, and the woman handing you the keys apologizes