by Patricia Clark
Overhead, auburn light was gilded, then flat.
And the light called out to me, so I stepped outside.
Archive for November, 2010
Missing
Posted By Zócalo On November 15, 2010Can We Defeat Aging With Medicine?
Posted By Zócalo On November 15, 2010
by Aubrey de Grey
Aging is bad for you. Whether you call it a disease, not a disease, a set of disease precursors, or some other variation on the theme, it is a medical condition, and thus a legitimate target — in principle — for medical intervention.
When the War Comes Home
Posted By Zócalo On November 12, 2010
David Philipps was reporting for his hometown newspaper in Colorado Springs when the Iraq War came home, in the form of a string of murders at Fort Carson. “The newspaper would report on them in the way newspapers do, saying what had happened, following the court cases through. But it wasn’t answering the big question of why were so many young returning soldiers getting arrested for murder?” he said. “Trying to answer that question is where everything started.” In Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
A Kinder, Gentler, More Conservative Way to Bank?
Posted By Zócalo On November 11, 2010
High Financier: The Life and Times of Siegmund Warburg
by Niall Ferguson
Following in the footsteps of Ron Chernow’s massive study of the entire Warburg clan, and benefiting from newly available documents, Niall Ferguson tells the story of how Siegmund fled Nazi Germany and established himself — and the City of London — at the apex of post World War II high finance.
Klepto
Posted By Zócalo On November 11, 2010
by Charlie Scott
Bud Goldthreat brought a fig tree down out of the wilderness,
And planted it in his folk’s front yard. Sat back to watch, wait.
Goddammit. Three times he did this. Three times it died. Distress
ArticlesFeuilletonFriday, December 3, 2010 How One Family Created Chinese America
PoetryThis week in L.A.From the green room
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