THE NEARSIGHTED BEACHCOMBER

From last summer, the feature I wrote for The New York Times Magazine  about Marc Edwards, Flint's water crisis, and the role of scienc...

From last spring, the review I wrote for the New York TImes Book Review of Annie Dillard's valedictory essay collection, The Abundance,...

One of my favorite science writers , Kathryn Schulz, published a take-down of Thoreau in The New Yorker . Funny title: "Pond Scum....

Matthew Power, 1974-2014 My remembrance of Matt is here, on the Harper's web site. The best part of it is here: "At t...

As a coda to my fiction course at Wayne State , I asked students to post one paragraph they admire to our course web site—a paragraph from...

Minor bummer of the day: I filled a big paper Yard&Lawn bag with frost-bitten apples and frosty leaves. Frost-bitten apples weigh m...

From Robert Hass's "An Oak Grove," which appears in What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World : ...