From the May 18 New Yorker article World Without End, by Raffi Khatchadourian:
28325674549 A hand made a number. It joined one little stone to another, one thunderclap to another, one fallen eagle to another, one arrowhead to [...]
What is joseki? It’s a handy word, and used frequently in Japan. A remark overheard one clear morning: ‘I’m going to follow my joseki and take the dog [...]
I had to begin enjoying the act of teaching and the only way I could do that was to start over, teach what I loved and to hell with the curriculum.
“Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled domain awaiting its first theory. I feel most at home with a jumble of glittering data and the feeling that [...]
When I was in high school, I went through an experimental phase of essay writing. The standard essay form was too dry, too monotonous to express everything [...]