Time-Travelling with My Father
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Searching for a Fortress Built by People Who Escaped Slavery
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a rainy morning in March, George Dawes Green, a seventy-year-old novelist and the founder of the storytelling nonprofit the Moth, arrived at Millstone Landing, about twenty miles north of Savannah,…
Can You Save One Species by Annoying Another?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The scientist Tim Shields, who, in his field work, had been finding an ever-increasing number of dead tortoises, says that he grew frustrated with merely “taking notes on the catastrophe.” A…
A Tender and Knowing Portrait of Rural Life in Wisconsin
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are more than eighty-nine million cows in this country, and one of them is leaning through Aunt Diane’s window. Raj is a Holstein-Brahman cross, but he seems more like a…
A Newly Discovered Realm of Accomplishment for John Coltrane
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some rediscovered archival recordings by great musicians are more noteworthy for their news value than for their artistic significance. Others are treasures that extend a view of the artists’ achievements without…
My Life in the Aftermath of Martin Luther King’s Assassination
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The last time Martin phoned me, on the day of his assassination, the call came into my office in New York. I knew him so well that I figured I could…
The Heaven-Sent Singing of Jacob Lusk
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When it comes to the many types and shades of Biblical metaphor being stretched into the secular world, the metaphor of baptism does the best, and heaviest, lifting. There’s a plain…
Peter de Sève’s “To the Sea!”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the heat of summer sets in, those of us who yearn to get to the shore don’t often think of ourselves as part of the herd. Yet the scene in…
The Parent of a Teen-Ager Is an Emotional-Garbage Collector
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour published her latest best-selling book, “The Emotional Lives of Teenagers,” in February, a week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alarming report…