Great Escape

Nuance: A Love Story

My affair with the intellectual dark web

Illustration: Rebekka Dunlap

This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story. It begins sometime in 2015, a year during which my life was coming apart in various ways. In addition to the unraveling of my marriage, I began to sense some fraying around the edges of my social circles…