Other Projects

Serious Rachel

An occasional newsletter featuring an infinite parade of bison, the Why Can’t I Eat My Dog? advice column, and other anthropological and literary delights.

Lost is Found: the adventures of inanimate objects

A fiction series about the triumphs and tragedies of the objects we take for granted, delivered directly to your email inbox once a month…ish.

Why Can’t I Eat My Dog?

An advice column for the culturally curious. Ask an anthropologist (me) your questions about the wide, weird world of cultural taboos. Answers are featured monthly in the Serious Rachel newsletter, and on this very blog whenever I feel like it.

Books, not People

An infrequently updated blog chronicling some of the books I’ve been reading and why they are, invariably, preferable to the company of most humans.