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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Coming Attractions

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What I'll be reading this Fall: Mike Wallace's Greater Gotham , the long-awaited sequel to Gotham: A History of New York City to 18...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

In Color (Spencer Holst)

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"On moonless nights he walks over the oozy bog in snowshoes taking time exposures in color of luminous mushrooms. It is the police ch...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Poems in their kind

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Ramaria Amanita Russula parvovirescens Oct. 10, 1858. The simplest and most lumpish fungus has a peculiar interest ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The Sibyl's Testament

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Pausanias (Book X in Peter Levi's edition) mentions a sibyl named Herophile who prophesied at various sanctuaries, including those at Sa...
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Monday, July 17, 2017

Naima

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Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of John Coltrane. Richard Williams has a brief appreciation at The Blue Moment. Below is a t...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Liu Xiaobo

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The Chinese critic and activist Liu Xiaobo has died . A related New York Times article by Chris Buckley reflects on the bleak prospects fo...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Pale arrivals

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One of my favorite moments of the year — the emergence of Monotropa uniflora, familiarly known as Indian pipes. They've waited out the ...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Tracts (2): Jerry McAuley's Story

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Me father was a counterfeiter, and ran away from justice before I can remember him. There was a lot of us, and they put me with me grandm...
Monday, June 19, 2017

The Poison of the Age

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"Novel reading has been fearfully on the increase during the last fifteen or twenty years, and especially in the last ten years; and ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Tracts (1): Satan's Propaganda Agency

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This little leaflet is just one example of the countless inexpensive evangelical tracts that have been printed and distributed over the ye...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Digging

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During a recent morning jaunt around a lake in Acadia National Park we came across this snapping turtle hollowing out a nest on the edge of ...
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