August 5, 2013
Kindness and Attention (Part One)
The commencement speech that George Saunders delivered at Syracuse University a few months ago has been making the virtual rounds, and it’s easy to understand why. Saunders warms up the […]
July 22, 2013
Pocketbooks, Part 1
I used to carry everything in a black bike messenger bag but switched a few years ago to a backpack. The pack is canvas, gray, accented in blue and black. […]
June 30, 2013
The Lost Books of Lord Byron
I have read somewhere that you cannot read in dreams, that there is some neurological block against processing written language. I don’t remember where, maybe in a dream. Because I […]
February 17, 2012
“If you’re not there, the story won’t be told”: Anthony Shadid (1968–2012)
Yesterday brought the profoundly sad news that the extraordinary journalist Anthony Shadid has passed away, at the age of 43, apparently of an asthma attack suffered while on assignment in […]