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- Feeder Tales, Part 3: Species
- Farewell, Leonard Nimoy.
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- Feeder Tales, Part 1: For a Junco
- Thorns
- Dance of Galaxies
- Footnote humor
- A Rough History of Disbelief
- A Catbird in a Snowstorm
- Kingston Station
- Of all the things you can say against bikeshares …
- Peloton
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- Our fair (biking) city
- On discovering Chinua Achebe after his death
- Taxicab Proselytization
- Musings on Tolkien: Art, Myth and Religiosity
- On Translation
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- The Belmont Syndrome
- Did you know you could turn a hyperbola into a loop?
- A long story that could not (would not) be cut short
- The Surprise on Pothole Avenue
- With the midnight pedalers
- Lying
- 5-minute calculation
- The Dancing Bird
- Condors of the Grand Canyon
- Mega, Giga and Tera
- Allergy
- Two Alexanders
- Wheel Love
- No embroidered cloths
- The Last Days of Fall
- The polyglot novel
- Whither goest thou America … ?
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- Frogs in the well
- Cormorant Congress
- Mr. and Mrs. Redtail
- So, which lovely car would YOU like to be doored by?
- Super Perigee
- Sweetie-hey
- Distortion-Rate tradeoffs
- Elixir
- 536 miles since Memorial Day
- Cloying Calculus
- Willow Pond
- The Savage Within
- Library Sale
- SW19
- At long last, a library card
- Steepest descent
- The Recapture
- Red Earth and Pouring Rain
- A ditty for Mr. Dodgson
- Love on a sparkling wing
- Flotsam from ZMM
- Stegosaurus Ludicrous
- Not in Zen
- Happy Birthday, Carl: A personal tribute
- The cemetery in autumn
- In a Contrarian Wind
- A Truly Fascinating History
- Clothes maketh the man … obscure.
- May there always be frogs …
- Words fail
- Out of Eden
- Avian Updates OR Yet another birding post
- Robins and Tombstones
- Pansebjorne!
- Dormant Pond
- Keen on Birding
- I(x) and U(x)
- The Morning Dollar
- Growing up in the Universe
- Owling
- Mr. Gobbles
- Ecstatic Road to Nowhere
- Changes
- A lull in Mirkwood, 2nd edition
- Totality
- Wood Elves
- The Home and the World
- Ten favorite short stories
- Mayfly
- A brutal, forgotten history
- Books about good people
- “Like a Dog” – Some thoughts on Disgrace
- Serendipity
- Happy Birthday, Kate
- Why do children resemble their parents? (Except those that resemble the milkman)
- Earth Day
- Virginia Tech shootings
- Heron Haven
- Exhaustion
- Readers on a plane
- Holy Space
- Concerning Hobbits
- Boatman
- Remembering Laughter
- Like peeling an onion
- Mired in ideology, Tehanu captivates but does not satisfy
- The end of biodiversity as we know it
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Birding with Simon Barnes
- Five (bookish) things you don’t know about me
- Genius proposes, SI disposes
- Foes on multiple levels
- On Burnout
- Appreciating degree in a polarized world
- Vasilisa: Early Book Meme
- Everyone has a Nancy Drew story
- Wired Mag caricatures New Atheism
- The Bed of Delgadina
- Blogless in Hangzhou
- Free (and dusty) Asimov
- Westcotts and Finches
- The horrors of Mr. Kurtz
- An unwelcome opportunity to read
- The travails of Gaia
- Thinking about thinking
- A lull in Mirkwood
- 51 y, 9 m, 4 d
- A writer’s paean to Federer
- When a character introspects
- The World’s Great Nomads
- On a speck of star-stuff
- The Pearl of Allington
- On Reading in Bed
- One of every kind
- The first “adult” book
- A Readability Test
- Days of insomnia
- Three graces
- The color of forbidden passion
- Fun with Wimbledon reporting
- A Counting Exercise
- Agastya Sen goes to America
- Not just another Kidman biography, I hope
- The world’s only book, digitized and shorn of charm
- Muir essay on Yosemite
- With Binoculars and Persistence
- Tempted and slightly puzzled by Mishra
- Savagery in One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Vampire nostalgia
- Updike on the Kaavya Viswanathan case
- Beyond the Dragons’ Run
- Oversimplifying “Women and Islam”
- The poem and the theorem
- Is The Da Vinci Code really such a bad film?
- The Jane Austen of South Alabama
- The Pearl
- All Gaul is occupied by the Romans. All?
- A People Betrayed
- Who will write the next Great American Novel?
- Holmes in Sepia
- And Boo Radley had come out…
- Precious Ramotswe revisited?
- Machiavellian World
- The Eaten One
- Wisdom of Earthsea
- The Problem With Harry
- (un)Glorious summers for these sons of York.
- Gould Too Cute on Science v. God
- Two by Russo
- McCall Smith on his lady detectives
- Updike short story
- Darwin’s Mystery of Mysteries
- Coma Induced by a Problematic Colon ?
- Trouble in the Benedictine Order
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