A blog about the stories that nourish and sustain us, and the small miracles of everyday life. Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland magazine and the author of numerous books, most recently the novel Mink River.
Recent Posts
Cool Beans
When life presents you a cursing surfer Read More
Cutter
The Man Who Saw Too Much
The Town Behind the One You Can See
To: The National Passport Processing Center, Philadelphia
Over the Bar in the River
His Wooden Leg
A blog about psycholinguistics with posts each Thursday by Jessica Love, a psychologist and science writer at Northwestern University. Her most recent article “Reading Fast and Slow” appeared in our Spring 2012 issue.
Recent Posts
No English, No Career?
The new lingua franca of science Read More
A Mind to Navigate
N. K. Y. S. A.
Where’s the “The”?
Magic Fingers
Time Traveling Through a Sentence
CAPTCHA That Bot!
A blog about science with posts each Wednesday by Priscilla Long, the author of The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life. Her essay “Genome Tome,” which appeared in our Summer 2005 issue, won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
Recent Posts
How Flowers Changed the World
They still do, every spring Read More
My Father
Those Other Ancestors
Our National Raptor
Visit to a Small, Cold Planet
Ode to (Silent) Spring
Where There’s a Will …
A blog about the art of teaching, with new posts each Tuesday by Paula Marantz Cohen, a distinguished professor of English at Drexel University and the author of the novels Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper.
Recent Posts
The Teaching Cure
What teachers can learn from therapists Read More
Existential Teaching
Love the One You’re With
Hidden Meanings
The Search for Wonder
Teachers of the World, Unite!
Urban Encounters
A blog about American culture, with new posts each Monday by William Deresiewicz. Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won’t Teach You will be out next year.
Recent Posts
Believe It
The persistence of faith Read More
The Ties That Blind
The Limits of Limits
The Lottery Society
Downton’s End
How’s That Again?
Arms and the Man
