Ari Schulman

The Givenness of Things: Essaysby marilynne robinsonfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $26 Why is it that the most graceful writer of our day, who offers such a beautiful defense of charity and intellectual humility in her novels, is so often flippant and ­uncharitable in her essays? If . . . . Continue Reading »

How did you meet?Well, it was sort of . . .  there wasn’t one moment, exactly. We were kind of in the same friend circles, and she was like one of those people who was around and I was sort of aware—Snickermuffin, do you . . . ? Yeah no, something like that.How long have you been together?I . . . . Continue Reading »