Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Cultures
A Paradise Built in Hell
THE TITLE OF Rebecca Solnit’s new book sounds uncharacteristically inspirational. Not that Solnit,…
Notes from No Man’s Land
WE THINK WE ARE reading one thing. Then suddenly we find it is a different thing entirely: the…
An American Gospel
ONE OF THE INTERESTING side effects of the current economic, social, and environmental collapse is…
Thin Places
ANN ARMBRECHT spent eighteen months living among the Yamphu Rai in the remote hamlet of Hedangna,…
Because the Cat Purrs
READING Because the Cat Purrs by Janet Lembke on the airplane, I find myself hunching over…
The Life of the Skies
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN the one that got away. That’s a birding as well as a fishing refrain,…
Vanishing America
IN E. M. FORSTER’S 1909 science fiction classic, The Machine Stops, human beings live…
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
THE LAST FLIGHT of the Scarlet Macaw centers around a small dam that should have gone up without…
Nobodies
BUDDHISTS HAVE A PRAYER, spoken at mealtimes, that begins, “Innumerable labors have brought…
Thought to Exist in the Wild
GRANTED, I have a thing for rhinos. But few readers could see the sleeping rhinoceros on page thirty-one…
