Category Reading

Bits of brilliance

For your plague reading, which, as it turns out, did not stop with Defoe or Camus. (I once had occasion, in an earlier disaster, to write about the timelessness of Defoe’s work. You can read it here: McLellan washday in…

News, reading, le weekend

On Saturday mornings, I try to catch up on the news, the Food Network, and otherwise luxuriate in being able to stay in bed in my pajamas. This is a pretty startling piece of news about India’s overcrowded, under-resourced railways. …