Questing for some understanding of delusion, I am reading Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote , having just finished two personal accounts...

In the days following the election, our upstate NY, rural neighborhood resounds with lawn “care” (effected through gasoline powered, loud...

What is the takeaway from two days of New Yorkers canvassing in Pennsylvania? No one is home these days. Unless you are delivering...

After Apalachee, Uvalde, Sandy Hook...   I am not there for “thoughts and prayers” pacifying victims pleas to savior and slayer heart in...

June 2024 Jeff McMahon For the past month, spongy moth (nee “gypsy moth”) caterpillars have overtaken most of the trees on our three...

The Biden presidency is distinguished by many visionary responses to current crises, with further movement too often blocked by a...

When I was young and immersed in demonstration politics, I may have said some extreme statements. Having realized a need to engage, to...

Believe/Remember January 2, 2024 If you believe one atrocity is best avenged by another, remember; an eye for an eye leads to all being...

Walking near our hotel in old San Diego, the Gaslamp District, the ubiquitous ragged and often ranting homeless, echoing the decay of so...

I am unpacking my library. Having retired from my university teaching position after 20 years in the Arizona desert, I sold or gave away...

I’m standing in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, to which we were bused as suburban schoolchildren to stare in confused awe (how could...

Reporter Kevin Roose's transcription, in the February 16 New York Times, “Bing’s A.I. Chat: I Want to Be Alive” had me searching for...

As the murder of Tyre Nichols sours our souls as yet another example of over-amped policing, we are reminded that these officers were...

At the end of Annie Ernaux’s 2008 memoir, The Years, translated by Alison L. Strayer, she tells us, using the same third-person we have...

In one evening at Film Forum one can watch several films that are related in ways you may not anticipate; Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, and...

In the one-woman show, Sandra, written by David Cale and currently appearing at The Vineyard, the word “destination” recurs. As is the...

Witnessing David Bowie, an artist who balanced control and discipline with restless curiosity, in the out-of-control documentary, Moonage...

Re-mounting what had been a virtual, pandemic piece in early 2020 (LAST GASP, WFH) filmed in an abandoned house in London, as a live show...

Reflections on culminating performance of David Zambrano’s 5 week Intensive Flying Low & Passing Through at TicTac Art Centre, Brussels...

December 24, 2021 During a particularly bright local evening, unknown persons arrived in our town riding a donkey. These two, Joseph and...