John Hersey, Hiroshima
Seventy-one years ago, in August 1946, The New Yorker printed in its entirety John Hersey’s report on the effects of…
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Wendell Berry, Roots to the Earth
I just read Roots to the Earth, a collection of Wendell Berry’s poetry and prose on American rural life. It…
Bureaucrats, Ancestors, and Nabokov’s Butterflies
Though bureaucracy is unloved, many of us devote our leisure time to bureaucratic pursuits. We organize needle and thread in…
“Tolerance” is a Loaded Gun
C.W. is in town for a few days from Kosovo. He’s left the NGO he joined a few years ago:…
Book Monster meets Mary Szybist
Book Monster is a Korean retailer specializing in used and remaindered books. The first U.S. outlet, just off the Third…
Still Life with Apocalypse and Antelope
A new study, assessing nearly fifty years of data, has concluded that sperm counts have tumbled 50% and more…
Technology, Time and Sabbath
In evangelical circles, Philip Yancey is known for The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace? and Prayer:…
My Meditation Will Not Bring World Peace.
Three years ago, feeling the aftereffects of a series of deaths in the family, I paid $500 for a week-long…
Robert Paul Wolff’s “Beyond Tolerance.”
I have a personal investment in tolerance: I belong to several groups and organizations which, in other parts of the…
Poems for Just a Few Children
I read two short books this morning. One is very short: Frank J. Anderson’s Birds on My Mind. Anderson, the…
Left Write & Centaur 