It’s gonna be a long day with myself
Why am I so hungry? Oh because it’s noon and I’ve been on Twitter for four hours
Life
Tuesday
Corona Derangement Syndrome
The virus has driven everyone mad
Monday
Heads in the cloud
Life in the age of COVID-19 is connected but unconnected
Thursday
Climbing the walls
A lockdown challenge in Sri Lanka
Saturday
The guns of Alexander
In the event of the gun confiscation fancied by the Democratic party’s billionaires and its NPR tote-bag carriers, the hinterlands will not submit
Friday
Lure of the jungle
The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars
A tale of three dogs
Like a star of the country & western stage, I write because my wife left me and took my dog
Tuesday
No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education
Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
Tuesday
Celia Walden: the birth of ‘corona kissing’ in LA
For germaphobe Angelenos the coronavirus is scarier than a waiter coming at you with a breadbasket
Saturday
Epicenes and epicures
While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso
Monday
I fell out with my friend Chrysanthia over abortion
As a transwoman, the chance of me ever being able to have an abortion in my lifetime is slim
Friday
Do cry for her, Argentina
‘Poor people don’t want someone to protect them who is old and dowdy,’ Eva once explained
Wednesday
The remarkable Martha Treichler
Black Mountain left a mark on her and her husband Bill
Monday
Addicted to Addis
We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite
Tuesday
The evolution of Vermont
I’ve wintered here all my life and during that time Vermont has, like old Digby’s marital status, seen three permutations
Monday
Ganging up on Israel
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
Tuesday
Palermo without borders
At first glimpse there appears to be no serious backlash against incomers
Monday
Cape of many colors
Some call Chatham slightly precious, too sure of its own perfection. They have a point
Sunday
Speed-dating in Portland with Godfrey Elfwick
If you have a ‘type’ when it comes to matters of the heart, then your narrow-mindedness sickens me
Friday
Show off and tell: the sad death of inconspicuous consumption
While I was in Manhattan I was dropped by my New Yorker girlfriend for not being rich enough
