The Masters 2020 – Day Three – DJ takes charge
Reading Time: 4 minutes Day Three at the Masters began just like Day Two, with players looking to complete rounds leftover from the previous evening as...
How to change your Google Meet background, and why you should
The pandemic is coming for your privacy, but there are small ways to fight back. If you’re fortunate enough to have a work-from-home gig, then there’s...
New York’s Finest?
As 2020’s chaotic presidential election was called last weekend, New York City erupted in a cacophony of joy at Donald Trump’s defeat. America’s largest city endured...
Criminalizing a Constitutional Right
National discussions of abortion—of any services that might end a pregnancy, make contraception available, or provide other means of regulating one’s capacity to bear children—usually focus...
The Sense of an Ending
The Silence is full of voices, a work of talky minimalism whose characters are all troubled by the absence of sound. Five of them, three men...
The Dream of Pure Expression
Although I have not visited the graveyard in the French town of Sète that is the subject of Paul Valéry’s extraordinary poem “Le Cimetière Marin” (“The...
Cartographers of Stone and Air
The English writer and cartographer Tim Robinson, who died from Covid-19 in April at the age of eighty-five, dedicated more than forty years of his life...
An Undisappearing Act
There were three people at the funeral of Mary Ellen Meredith when she died at the age of forty, in 1861: two women servants and an...
In the Soup
Each human culture has its own origin myths. The Telefol, a mountain people of New Guinea, relate that in the beginning there was a mother called...
Making London Their Own
In Britain, as in the rest of Europe and the US, the Black Lives Matter movement and the severe effects of Covid-19 on Black, Asian, and...
