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  • She Did Not Speak

    Wir sagen uns Dunkles
                           —Paul Celan

     

    It began so quietly that no one could hear it.

    How to begin a story that can never be told? . . .

  • The Goal Now Has to Be to Listen: An Interview with Barry Lopez

    INTRODUCTION

    Barry Lopez is one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers about human beings and their place on this planet. Few writers have thought more deeply about that relationship or have written more powerfully and eloquently about it. . . .

  • Invasive Beauty

    No other creature holds the same romance
    in the minds of Icelanders as herring. 
       —Anita Elefson, historian, Herring Era Museum

    I sit at a tiny coffeehouse nestled on the southern rocky coast of Iceland’s Snaefellsnes Peninsula, . . .

  • Leo’s Bomb

    When the bomb goes off Leo is thinking of dogs. In particular: how he doesn’t like them.

    It’s something about their eyes, which blink with an odd depth of understanding that appears almost human to him. . . .

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