Nothing Goes Unnoticed
Nothing has gone unnoticed. And that is a disturbing thought.
A Crash Course on Micro-aggressions
It was time for my daughter to give me a crash course from her school curriculum about “micro-aggressions.”
Teaching in America
Is there anything more difficult than being a public school teacher in America? Yes, being a math or science teacher in New York City.
Brash, Real-World Voices of New York City’s Tabloids Under Siege
The shrinking of local newspapers in the United States is a tragedy.
Raising a Foodie
Our son turns out to have become a real foodie, once he was safe from his mother.
A Sense of Where You Are
When I walk into the radio studio on the 36th floor of an apartment building in Manhattan for an interview, I suddenly arrive in the middle of a rehearsing...
At the Nobel Prize Banquet
The trumpets sound a fanfare, and I walk with 1,300 invited guests into the courtyard of the City Hall of Stockholm, which has been transformed into a dining room....
On Dickinson
The exhibition I’m Nobody! Who are you? about the poet Emily Dickinson in the New York Morgan Library is deceptively simple. In just a few steps you can cross...
The Future of Books
As I walk into the new Amazon bookstore that just opened on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, I have a disorienting feeling that I have not entered a bookstore but...
Finding the Patterns
In 1989 I moved to Princeton for the first time, crossing the wide ocean from Amsterdam.