Announcing a Three-week Lull in the Action

For tomorrow we...

Brand Spanking New Fully Planted Deer-proof Yellow Cedar Raised Bed Garden.

Should have fresh veggies when we return from Borneo!

The French Fracture

A social thinker illuminates his country’s populist divides.

Ontario School Board Tosses Shakespeare for Indigenous Writers

Exams by Twitter hashtag. #justsayin

What Makes a Genius?

Exemplary powers of perception.

Not a Mullah in Sight

How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian hedonists.

Rising High Water Blues

One byproduct of the1927 the Mississippi  flood catastrophe: the beginning of the literary careers of Faulkner and Richard Wright.

What Does Thoreau’s Walden Pond Look Like Today?

Nothing like I knew the pond in the old days.

The Windshield Phenomenon

Where have all the insects gone?

Wait Until They Read ‘The Bolthole’

Magazine editor quits after outrage over column saying he doesn’t believe in cultural appropriation.

Borneo’s Tribal Punk

This punk’s leaving Sunday.

Never Before Seen: Deer Spotted Eating Human Bones

It’s all they’ll have to eat, once I finish our deer-proof garden this week.

Nomad Culture and Rejection of ‘Home’ has Returned.

You need both.

What Happens When Authors Are Afraid to Stand Alone

Writing as an individual pursuit has been replaced by “community”—and literature is the worse for it.

The Mathematical Formula for Choosing the Fastest Queue.

Ah yes. The Pollaczek-Khinchine formula.

Shakespeare

The apex predator.