Why you should build your own goddamned book index

After publishing more than twenty works of non-fiction, I’m here to tell you that indexing is good for you. Doing it is time-consuming, unpaid labour, but doing it well will improve the book.

Are land acknowledgments working?

Land acknowledgments—that semi-ceremonial rite that precedes many public and academic gatherings, noting in some manner the Indigenous presence on the local landscape that preceded colonization—has been having a commentator moment in the United States. Writers in The Atlantic and the New York Post have weighed in lately, on the negative side: the New York Post's...