Category: Stuff

  • The muscular strength that it gave to my jaw

    My father was a sharp-witted, well read man who dropped out of a teaching job at Rutgers to support a growing family. Even in unpromising conditions, however, his learning instinct remained.

  • The road to Berlin / the road to Moscow

    A footbridge across Poland’s main east-west motorway brings home the geopolitics of Poland, a flat country with no natural defences, caught between two great powers. And now, our world feels very troubled again.

  • Old technologies

    Our relationship to text has changed from the heyday of Letraset. Software gives us choices of font, size, layout that most people never had before. And we have to make difficult archival decisions, in an unstable environment.