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Trees, baby! Trees.Bits and bobs from The Overstory, by Richard Powers: “You’re a psychologist,” Mimi says to the recruit. “How do we convince people that we’re right?” The newest Cascadian takes the bait. “The best arguments in […]
    UC Santa Cruz, sort ofFrom The Overstory, by Richard Powers, p. 257: He’s admitted to the new social psychology graduate program down at Santa Cruz. The campus is an enchanted garden perched on a mountainside overlooking Monterey Bay. It’s the […]
The blackness behind us and before usIn W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn (1995), this prescient and evocative passage seems to speak directly to us in the summer of 2023: Our spread over the earth was fuelled by reducing the higher […]
Phil Freshman, my good friendPhil Freshman, who I met in 1970, died yesterday. There are so many good memories, and so many stories I could tell. I first saw his name in a by-line on an article in the […]
Gibbon, massacres of Christians, and dying mothsFrom Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, Chapter XV: Here Rachel came up from the lower garden with a book in her hand. “What’s that book?” said Ridley, when she had shaken hands. “It’s […]
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