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In this view, publicness is not about deliberation and collective action; it represents siloed, immovable identities each getting their piece of the pie.

There are four aspects, intrinsic to gift giving, that further these positive effects: sacrifice, reciprocity, “publicness” and ritual.

Among Maher’s wise choices is to accept that the very publicness of Baloch’s life makes her, on some level, unknowable.

Its director, Alex Poots, formerly of the Manchester international festival, said its publicness was the very thing that attracted him to move there.

That turn at the end of the sentence is pure Orlean; even when contemplating something as big and abstract as “publicness,” her sensibility veers toward the immediacy of the human touch.