Category Archives: Reflections

Hard Labor.

May 10, 2021 New Yorker cover
May 10, 2021

An Artist on How He Survived the Chain Gang
by Winfred Rembert

You have to play a role that isn’t really you. It’s like slavery. You have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well.

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

November 26, 2018

Reflections
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.
by Bill McKibben

The Good Cook: A starving patriot in North Korea.

November 2, 2009
November 2, 2009

The Good Cook
A starving patriot in North Korea.

by Barbara Demick

If you want a second piece to read, While the Women are Sleeping by Javier Marías is beautifully haunting (and hauntingly beautiful).