The Curious Case of E-Lafdas on Twitter An obstinate culture that the internet fosters is the callous sense of creating dialogue about things you have, at best, passing knowledge about. Last year, someone in a tweet reproached Twitter users for getting into ‘e-lafdas’ – thus christening the phenomenon that plagues…

Trigger Warning: Mentions of abuse, suicide, substance abuse, death In a Pennsylvania town inundated by tragedies at every doorstep — there isn’t space, or time, to navigate the brutality of grief. We see the residents of Easttown wrestling with regret, premonitions of their worst selves, and the unbound nature of…

Yesterday, I started watching this HBO show called The Leftovers. It’s a show that didn’t draw a huge audience during its initial airing, but is unanimously acclaimed as one of the best television series of the century, and went on to have a cult following. The pilot begins with a…

Existing in a time so consumed by historical grief can be a lot of things — your ambition hinges on temporary survival, the corners of the city you grew up in hibernate because of lack of affection, and the cruelty of division and distance seems magnified than ever before. …