Two students sit at two pianos down the hall from each other, working on the same eight bars. The first has the metronome at 72 and has played the passage, by the tally marks penciled in the margin, forty-one times […]
In March 2025 a travel writer, Simon Buckby, published a guide called “The Arabian Peninsula is waking up and opening up.” The whole peninsula was opening, it said, except Yemen, “still stuck in civil war.” A single tourist visa for […]
On a rough day at Clapham, Benjamin Franklin fetched a cruet of oil and went down to the large pond on the common. He dropped a little on the water from the leeward side, where the waves were largest, and […]
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