Sam Sifton

July 8, 2020

What Does it Mean to be ‘At Home’ These Days?

Welcome. I write from home because home is where I work, but I’m not always at home any longer. I’ve been to a hardware store this […]
July 1, 2020

Revisiting a New York That Doesn’t Currently Exist

Welcome. I spent too much time this morning looking around the internet for a Jay McInerney short story that I thought was called “Cigarettes.” (It’s actually […]
June 24, 2020

At Home Newsletter: The Best Ideas for Living Right Now

Welcome. What does it mean now, to be “at home”? Not so long ago we nonessential people were quarantined, hiding out from an invisible foe, either […]
June 10, 2020

At Home Newsletter: A Library of Diversion While You Figure Things Out

Welcome. We’re still working from home, those of us with work, anyway, those of us who can afford to be home, those who don’t have to […]
May 27, 2020

At Home Newsletter: Finding a Balance Between Solitude and Loneliness

I saw a scarlet tanager from my window the other morning. It flitted past like something out of a cartoon, stopped on a fence post, then […]
May 20, 2020

At Home Newsletter: All the Google Docs that are fit to print.

Welcome to At Home. Here’s an example of an email I used to get roughly four times a week before the pandemic, when my main job […]
May 13, 2020

At Home: This Isn't Forever. But We Can Make It Better Now.

Welcome! It’s a funny feeling to think that it might not go on forever, the isolation and social distancing, the scary trips to the market, the […]