Miscellany Archives

Miscellany

Miracles and Wonders

by Sallie Tisdale,

One woman’s search for a perfect bra

The Man Stopped

by Vladimir Nabokov,

A story

Some Notes on Song

by John Berger,

The rhythms of listening

Stop Time

by Chloe Dewe Mathews, Geoff Dyer,

Remembering World War I’s executed deserters

Found Money

by Alice Gregory,

Televised auctions and the Great Recession

A Brief History of Scent

by Beau Friedlander,

The smell of life and death — and everything in between

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

How leprosy teaches empathy

A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war

Being Blanche

by Ashton Applewhite,

Coming clean about Truly Tasteless Jokes

Own Goal

by Wells Tower,

How homeless soccer explains the world

Disaster Aversion

by Rivka Galchen,

The quest to control hurricanes

Misinformation Intern

by Willem Marx,

My summer as a military propagandist in Iraq

Out of Iraq

by Adam Davidson,

The rise and fall of one man's occupation

Devil’s Work

by Morgan Meis,

Secret doings at the Queens Museum of Art

Miracles and Anthems

by Eduardo Galeano,Translated by Mark Fried,

The alchemy of soccer

The Inhumanity of the Animal People

by Joy Williams,

Do creatures have the same rights that we do?

Adiós, General

by Ariel Dorfman,

Saying good-bye to Pinochet

What Sort of Car-rt-sort am I?

by Erik Larson,

Junk mail and the search for self

Gazing Into Bergdorf’s Window

by Peter Freundlich,

Reflections on the higher shopping

Ice-Cream Music

by Don Asher,

Have songs, will set the mood

Imagine Paris