High-Class Camping
Why eat freeze-dried lentils when you can feast in style? And other lifestyle tips for the great outdoors…
The One That Got Away
My first trout caught on a fly rod! I am so proud! Look how big he–whoops. If a fish falls into the river before the photo is snapped, did you really catch him?
All Cats Are Sociopaths
And they don’t want you to succeed. Case in point:
I love Michael Chabon. I hate Michael Chabon.
Love him because he’s so damn good. Hate him for the same reason. I first fell under his spell during a casual encounter with The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and then descended into hopeless obsession this summer, between the pages of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Here’s a brief passage from the first essay in Manhood for Amateurs,…
Diary of a Soviet Airwoman at War- Summer 1941
Excerpts from a young Russian airwoman’s memoir of WWII
Diary of a Soviet Airwoman at War: June 1941
A Soviet combat airwoman recalls the first weeks of WWII
“The Atlantic” WWII Retrospective, and a Young Airwoman’s Recollections of Barbarossa, 70y Ago
This summer, The Atlantic began running a weekly retrospective of World War Two—a series of photographs from different eras and theatres of that great war. The photographs are riveting, calamitous, heartrending. Seventy years ago this summer, the German army invaded the Soviet Union, breaking a non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler and raining unimaginable destruction upon Ukraine, Belarus,…
Russian Coup – 20 Years Ago
Twenty years ago today, tanks rumbled through the streets of Moscow. Do you remember where you were? Every generation has its historic “where were you when” moments. For ours, there’s the Challenger disaster (1/86), the fall of the Berlin Wall (11/89), and most vivid of all for me, the three-day Soviet coup in late summer…
The Greenery 