Our Books, Ourselves
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A personal library, like a toolshed, lives in a state of frequent and pseudo-fruitful interruption.
Our Chekhov Moment
Posted on June 29, 2020
Image: Cherry blossoms by Lance Cheung with a portrait of Anton Chekhov near the end of his life.
Who will emerge as the new elite from this particular moment’s cast of winners and losers?
How to Cook a Wolf Under Lockdown
Posted on June 25, 2020
Image: M.F.K. Fisher shopping in a Paris market in the 1940s.
My quarrel with M.F.K. Fisher was part of a larger quarrel I’ve been having with myself ever since we went to ground in March.
Cousin Starfish
by
David Egan
Posted on June 23, 2020
Image: Specimens of the sea star wasting disease; photo by Michael Kyte/UC Santa Cruz; seastarwasting.org.
Mother Nature sees you not as a soul shimmering with intelligence but as one solution to the problem of metabolism.
My Father Was There When I Really Needed Him
Posted on June 21, 2020
Image: Bicycle leaning on a wall. Via Wikimedia Commons.
A lesson in what it takes to be a father, and why a kid might want to have one.
Pressing Pause
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In a post-COVID world, instead of locking us down, pressing pause could actually open us up.