Your home is too hot in the spring and summer. Ehh. The first, most natural thought is that, obviously, there is something wrong with your air conditioner. Except, maybe not. It might be that your ...

But what workers hate is not the air-conditioning itself. It’s the way that air-conditioning is distributed: through snaking overhead tunnels of metal ductwork and out the end of just a few vents ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...