Thoreau as climate tracker
New England scientists are using Thoreau’s journals to document the effects of global warming.
New England scientists are using Thoreau’s journals to document the effects of global warming.
Mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war by reading Stern’s chilling, tragic interview with Lynndie England.
Round 2 of the 2008 Tournament of Books kicked off yesterday with my friend Mark Sarvas’ judgment. Today I choose between books by two novelists I admire, Joshua Ferris and Jonathan Lethem. Here’s how my decision opens: Jonathan Lethem is a gifted literary thief. I mean no insult. Last year, after all, he published an essay, “The Anxiety of Influence: . . .
One supposes Caitlin Flanagan finds her quotable teenagers the same place Friedman does his cab drivers, and Brooks his chatty NASCAR yokels.
Michael at Texas Pages likes the sound of (Californian) Jim Ruland’s Irish tamales, but wants Texan writers’ offerings.