One of my favorite essays of all time, Ian Bartky’s The Adaptation of Standard Time, is a sharp and condensed history of the different ways time used to operate, the standard way we believe it operates now, and how that came to feel natural, permanent and unavoidable. It’s a short essay already, and deeply complex, but by adding her own narrative (a failed breakfast order) and conveying much of the story through image, Liz Rush managed to get across all the nuance of the original in her own voice. It’s really smart, and you can read it in its entirety in Hand Job: A Labor of Love.