Viral Days
Realizing My Grandfather’s Sailing Dreams
When Covid hit, we already had the boat, so we only had to throw the lines
by Jessica Wilde | Saturday, April 16, 2022
Inside the Burns Unit
How Scotland’s national poet brought solace at a time of pain and isolation
by Thomas Fox Averill | Thursday, March 31, 2022
Reading Thucydides in a Time of Pandemic
What the Athenian historian’s insights predict about the future of our own democracy
by W. Robert Connor | Saturday, February 05, 2022
Wave to Me
There’s one thing I won’t relinquish to a pandemic that’s claimed so much
by Megan Craig | Thursday, February 03, 2022
The Plague Year
The more things change, the more they stay the same
by David Guterson | Thursday, January 27, 2022
On Hugging
What we lose when we can’t get close to the ones we love
by Chloe Shaw | Saturday, January 15, 2022
The Pandemic Mood
Who created it and how it is maintained
by Philip Alcabes | Saturday, January 08, 2022
Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists
How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism
by Robert A. Gross | Saturday, November 20, 2021
Back to School
A return to reading as a private and a public act
by Seth Lerer | Saturday, October 23, 2021
Facing Death at the Ends of the Earth
The discovery of the world’s oldest rock offers a hefty dose of perspective