Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd. He lives in Paris with his wife and daughter.

Language Unbound

How the words we use influence how we think

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday October 2, 2019

On the Turning Away

Our tendency to ignore human suffering

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday September 25, 2019

License to Chill

Life slows down when you can’t drive

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday September 18, 2019

Existential Split

On feeling the pull of home

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday September 11, 2019
A laptop sits open on a rustic wooden table next to a coffee and an evocative travel photograph

Too Much of a Good Thing

Relief at the end of summer vacation

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday September 4, 2019

Priceless Moments

How having children focuses a writer’s mind

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday August 28, 2019

Life on a Razor’s Edge

The hidden joys of shaving

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday August 21, 2019

Vicarious Pleasure

The joy of seeing a friend succeed

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday August 14, 2019

The Fiction of Race

When will we recognize it as such?

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday August 7, 2019

Rhetorical Rules of Engagement

Shunning those who disagree with us won’t help anyone

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday July 31, 2019

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