Colson Whitehead's newest book (published in August) is Harlem Shuffle, the adventures of Ray Carney, a resident of Harlem. The t...

Why is green tea bitter? What healthful substances are in it? Here's how we know: Google Doodle, Friday, September 17, 2021:  Celebratin...

 

Apple-Pie And Cheese By Eugene Field (1850-1895) Full many a sinful notion  Conceived of foreign powers  Has come across the ocean  To harm ...

"There are not two Germanies, a bad one and a good one, but only one, in which the best qualities have been corrupted with diabolical c...

"It seems that over the last three days they have done nothing but drink tea and watch television. The mere action of filling the kettl...

A mural by two artists, Melissa Turner and Brigitte Dawson, from Melbourne’s Murals and Interior Design, caught my eye in an article in the ...

Thomas Mann's famous novel Dr. Faustus, published in German in 1947, is usually described as the story of Adrian Leverkühn, a German c...

A year ago when I visited the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, I wrote: The gardens behind the gate are off limits this year, as are the greenhou...

Near my house: During one of my walks around my neighborhood, I saw a vulture eating a road-kill squirrel. Although they often fly overhead,...

"'Global change:' deforestation, habitat fragmentation, introduced predators, introduced pathogens, light po...

  Banksy, "The Cocktail Rat" ( source ) Here in the US, Monday is Labor Day, the traditional end of summer. At this point, most ch...

Coming later this month! Before reading Ruth Ozeki's new book The Book of Form and Emptiness , I decided to read an old one, from 2003 t...

New mural at the farmers’ consignment store, Argus Farm Stop. There’s one Argus near my house, and this one on the West Side of Ann Arbor.  ...