On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing.

"In On Not Knowing, a book of seventeen brief and edifying essays, [Ogden] uses her knowledge to illuminate the 'dimness' in which she spends most of her time: the messy uncertainty of daily life, which she has recently begun to spend with her young twin boys. Her illumination does not dispel this dimness, but instead casts a halo around it, demonstrating the value of circling the uncertain." —The Times Literary Supp...