Inlands: Notes from Frank Rodick

The psychiatrist who studied the worst of the worst—and the writer of the best piece of nonfiction I've ever read—is gone.

Psychohistorian David Jay Lifton died on September 4th, age 99.

Sep 24, 2025 • Frank Rodick

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Margaret Atwood takes down wannabe book burners with 163 words of wholesomeness

Posting today on the twitter machine, Canada’s writer emeritus gives the Queen Governor Premier of Alberta, as well as the Edmonton public school board…

Sep 1, 2025 • Frank Rodick

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June 2021

No Maggot Lonely: Thoughts from a Life in Art

A short essay on how and why

Jun 25, 2021 • Frank Rodick

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May 2021

Blood Money and Reveries

Walking through a parade for the blind

May 31, 2021 • Frank Rodick

September 2019

Stories of Love and Betrayal: On Making My Mother’s Portrait

When the young woman at the Mount Royal Crematorium handed me her remains, she said, “That’s the lightest box of ashes I’ve ever seen.”

Sep 19, 2019 • Frank Rodick

March 2019

Notes on Making My Father’s Portrait

I watched him die, but it took me ten years to realize I needed to make pictures of the loneliest man I ever knew.

Mar 29, 2019 • Frank Rodick

December 2018

A Letter to My Younger Self

Dear Frank,

Dec 29, 2018 • Frank Rodick

September 2018

What To Do When You’re an Artist and You Feel Like Sh*t

On self-esteem and getting to work

Sep 25, 2018 • Frank Rodick

May 2018

The Long Season of Untitled Selves

In which the artist discusses falling apart, what he found in old shoeboxes, and the problem of representing the unknowable.

May 26, 2018 • Frank Rodick