ICE AND OUR IMMIGRANTS
1854: Federal troops occupy Boston to send a fugitive slave back to slavery In September 2025, Milkweed Editions brought out my edited volume,…
THE GEOLOGICAL SUBLIME
A fossil butterfly from the Eocene, 34 million years ago In 2023 I was commissioned by Harper’s Magazine to write an essay about…
Butterflies at the Cullman Center
Nabokov’s drawing of the wings of the “Karner Blue” (P. melissa samuelis) In 2021 – 2022 I was a fellow at the Cullman…
Curating at the Bob Dylan Center
Beginning in the fall of 2020, I worked as one of the curators preparing for the 2022 opening of the Bob Dylan Center…