Sections

Introspection

Contingency

By Andrés Muedano

Harvard Love Map

What If?

Four

Pinching Paper: On Self and Medium

On My Admissions File

‘Deal or No Deal’: Learning How to Follow My Intuition

“Deal or No Deal” has become a mantra, an ideology that governs what I — and others — accept or reject.

A Hurricane From Here

When the news announced that Hurricane Milton’s landfall would be “catastrophic,” I was far from the storm. I’ve never worried much about incoming hurricanes, and I’m still not sure that I do.

Holding Space

No one tells you how to cope with a modern-day lynching.

Big-City Blues

When I see New York again, we’ll reacquaint ourselves. I’ll tell the corners that used to know my secrets a few new ones. And then we’ll say goodbye, and I’ll be on a train north — missing home, but glad, for now, that I left.