I had the chance to revisit my younger self the other day when I watched François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic L’Étranger. The film – titled The Stranger rather than my preferred ...

In a recent post, I discussed the old saying "It is what it is" as a useful adage that could serve us well as a cognitive frame for how we engage worry. I received a lot of interesting feedback, much ...

Absurdity is everywhere—it’s in the ridiculous characters of TV shows like What We Do in the Shadows or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in the surreal memes we scroll past on social media, and even ...

Nonsensical. Illogical. Irrational. The “Theatre of the Absurd,”* a mid-20th-century dramatic movement born from the trauma ...