Year: 2022
-
Writing is hard work for almost everyone, no matter how talented or inspired. Writing is thinking. Good writers do not usually have finished ideas that they then type out. The process . . .
-
Photograph from 1959: harvesting potatoes on a collective farm near Kyiv.
-
Perhaps Putin’s phrase “special military operation” should be seen as something more insidious than a euphemism for war. At the very least, it is consistent with Russia’s genocidal aims and practices in Ukraine. If we take the Clausewitzian metaphor of war as a duel somewhat literally, the Russian invasion of…
-
The Supreme court is no guarantor of our democracy.
-
My brother took the above photo on his trip to New Hampshire last month. It’s the old barn at the house we grew up in, viewed from a dirt road. Below is a picture he took of that house. It was badly in need of paint nine years ago, when…
-
It feels strange to be back home in DC after nine months away in rural New Hampshire. And I’m driving back up next week for my father’s memorial service—driving because flying sounds like a terrible option these days. My father was able to live at home for most of these…
-
A Librarian known as @PlaguePoems has been publishing them daily since the disaster began. Here’s one that speaks to our denial.
