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Bertha magazine A print publisher, e-magazine, and web site published in the U.S. and refreshed with new content periodically. It is not for the common reader.

Throw-back time (seven years ago, but still very much relevant, if not more so). Seven years seems a good interval (just...
15/03/2024

Throw-back time (seven years ago, but still very much relevant, if not more so). Seven years seems a good interval (just shy of 90% of two American presidential terms, and two years more than a French president gets in one term... and Macron is the first two-termer they've had in quite some time), just long enough for a leader of the free world to f**k things up worse than when they started.

This essay, printed in "Foreign Affairs," in their current issue, and extracted from Nichols's new book, just published is a sobering, yet witty account

The convention is to tell children they are safe, meaning to convey to them that you are protecting them from harm of an...
04/10/2023

The convention is to tell children they are safe, meaning to convey to them that you are protecting them from harm of any kind, and that nothing can come and hurt them (in the words of the Sondheim song, "not while I'm around"). For ourselves of course, it's long since that "safe" has taken on an increasingly notional application of meaning....

[written May 23, 2020, barely two months into lockdown for social distancing] The convention is to tell children they are safe, meaning to convey to them that you are protecting them from harm of any kind, and that nothing can … Continue reading →

Bibliomania Harvard University tells us that its esteemed main library alone, in its system of dozens of libraries—Widen...
04/10/2023

Bibliomania Harvard University tells us that its esteemed main library alone, in its system of dozens of libraries—Widener Memorial Library—has stacks of books accessible to those with appropriate ID that measure 57 miles of shelves. They house three million volumes, they say, and occupy ten levels on the five floors, plus subterranean spaces, that comprise the main building. I have appropriate ID, as an alumnus of the graduate school, and when I lived a mere seven-minute walk from the porticoed main entrance in the fabled Harvard Yard, I would pay the statutory fees of $200 a year to obtain a precious special borrower’s pass....

Bibliomania Harvard University tells us that its esteemed main library alone, in its system of dozens of libraries—Widener Memorial Library—has stacks of books accessible to those with appropriate ID that measure 57 miles of shelves. They house three million volumes, … Continue reading →

A new poem (and a new post, after a two year hiatus)
03/09/2023

A new poem (and a new post, after a two year hiatus)

Night Walk in Late Summer I walk the dog for her evening p*e. She prances. I lumber. Past the park; pools of green spotlighted in the blackout. Her lead

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