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The Mast-Head: March Is for Planning

There is not so much to do in March, other than plan and perhaps go on walks.

Mar 9, 2023
Gristmill: Moby-Dickens

John Irving swings for the fences.

Mar 2, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: All That Perfumed Hair

I’m one of those people who has extraordinarily intense dreams and who always wants to talk about them.

Mar 2, 2023
Point of View: Sound Minds, Sound Bodies

What’s it to be? Torpor and dictators? Or an educated, enlivened, engaged populace debating how best to proceed?

Mar 2, 2023
The Mast-Head: Ignoring the Obvious

One of the things that has struck me about the rash of dead whales on beaches in the Northeast is that it has been going on for years, millenniums, in fact.

Mar 2, 2023
The Mast-Head: Slavery’s Long Reach

This year for Black History Month I have been occupied by preparing for an exhibit at the Sag Harbor Cinema, intended to reach a broad audience.

Feb 23, 2023
Point of View: Tennis, Everyone?

“Tennis players live nine years longer,” I said to the guys I was playing doubles with the other day.

Feb 23, 2023
Gristmill: There Is a There There

When, exactly, did Patch­ogue get cool?

Feb 23, 2023
Point of View: Teenaged Exemplars

Quiescence tends to corrupt and absolute quiescence corrupts absolutely.

Feb 16, 2023
The Mast-Head: In Place of the Pines

All is not death and doom in the new forest clearings. Here and there, new plant communities are taking hold.

Feb 16, 2023
Gristmill: Stupor Bowl

The big game on Fox Sports — what could go wrong?

Feb 16, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: Save the Vowels

You get me, YouTube, you really do.

Feb 16, 2023