Nonfiction
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Realm of Illness
There are many types of cancer, some rarer than others. However, they all share the same basic features. One’s own…
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Sometimes a Sucker
I’ve been through unemployment three times in my working life, but it wasn’t until the third go ‘round that I…
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Legacy
Here, on the Ranch, the air smells bigger and the sky sounds bluer. The stars dance into constellations, and my…
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Doña Rosa
When I sit in silence, I can hear Doña Rosa shuffling around, humming an unfamiliar tune that feels like love…
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Montevideo Water Crisis
Since the beginning of this decade, I’ve lived through a winter storm that caused cascading infrastructure failures in Austin, Texas,…
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Obsidian Fields
I was twenty-one years old the summer Elaine and I backpacked into Three Sisters Wilderness. I was an urban creature,…
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The Patronus Paradox
A time-traveler named Harry Potter awaits the appearance of his dead father on the edge of a vast lake bordered…
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The Real Sickness in America
What vile alchemy has enabled many Americans, with Texans in the vanguard, to conjoin a stated belief in God with…
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Head Wounds
The photo is shocking: A massive sea turtle lies dead in the back of a pickup truck, its speckled front…
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Tenderness and Rot, or Why I Should Be Allowed to Burn Down the Peabody
The Yale Peabody Museum’s ornithology laboratory struggles mightily to enforce separation between “observer and observed,” as all good Western scientists…