Sriya Sridhar

What Rilke meant, and what gets lost when we reduce solitude to self-care, is the idea of befriending the self in earnest. Not the curated self, not t

The gendering of solitude is essential, not because it makes for comfortable thinking, but because it does not, and that is precisely why. Women who s

Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” is so canonical now that we have forgotten how radical its basic argument was, or rather, we have absorbed the

Food tastes different when you eat it alone and actually taste it. A piece of music, Schubert, or Feldman, or late Coltrane, or something strange and

Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research