Benjamin Anastas

Jun 29, 2021

A Disturbance of Memory at The Container Store

Maybe it’s still too early to go shopping for storage bins? I was in the middle of reading Euripides’s tragedy The Bacchae the other day — the Emily Wilson translation, with its remarkable fluidity, like “a filly running / beside her mother in the pasture” — when I had to…

Marie Kondo

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A Disturbance of Memory at The Container Store

Dec 6, 2020

Have You Ever Prayed with Pastor Paula?

In 2008 I had an assignment from The New York Times Magazine to write a profile of the charismatic Christian star and multi-platform prosperity preacher Paula White — at the time she had a national following in the brash, Botoxed world of the Trinity Broadcasting Network and for her popular…

Christianity

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