Critic's Notebook: Return of the Prodigal Writer

Election anxiety, stress-eating, and some updates.

Hello friends, 

How are you? ¿Cómo están? If you’re anything like me, your nervous system has lately been wracked by some combination of anxiety, anger, fear, and numbness.

Looking back on this electoral cycle I can see with clarity what a slog it’s been—the weeks of fear-mongering xenophobia, the stump speeches punctuated by intimations of violence, the…