A new book, “Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically,” is introduced by Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Truth Serum.”
Author Archives: Robin Bates
Eating Intentionally and Ethically
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Lose Yourself Inside This Soft World
Be mindful of the world, Mary Oliver tells us in “Mindful,” a poem that echoes Wordsworth and Hopkins.
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The GOP Has Learned to Love Big Brother
Many in the GOP who condemned January 6 when it happened now, like Winston Smith, love Big Brother.
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O Is for Dirty Oil Men
A Scott Bates poem about the kinds of billionaires–especially the oil men–who are flocking to Trump.
On Lear and Turning 73
Poet David Wright finds retirement lessons in “King Lear.” And aging lessons as well.
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An Ent Sighting in New Zealand
New Zealand’s famous “walking tree” brings to mind Tolkien’s Ents.
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Dostoevsky’s Near Death Experience (NDE)
Dostoevsky’s description of an epileptic fit is only recently being confirmed by science.
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Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer and Jesus
Early in Mark, Jesus’s family thinks he is insane–but sanity, as Wendell Berry notes in “Manifesto: Man Farmer’s Liberation Front,” is sometimes overrated.
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