Wildlife Near Where We Slept

Wildlife Near Where We Slept

Living, New York, Travel

At the Serena Lodge in Amboseli, Kenya, there were monkeys with bright turquoise balls roaming around … At the Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp in the Masai Mara, Kenya, there were warthogs nosing around outside our tent … … and Harry the Hyrax in the woods...
New York Skyline

New York Skyline

New York

  Literally. Returning to New York for our summer visit, we were greeted by an absolutely perfect (and unseasonably cool) summer evening.

Washington Square and Trauma

New York, Scholarship and Teaching

Today, toward the end of a section meeting that I was visiting for the Writing New York course, I had a thought: What would Henry James’s Washington Square look like as seen through the lens of trauma studies? Dr. Sloper might emerge as a victim of both personal...

J-Term 2011

New York

Starting next year, NYU will have a J-Term — a January term — that lasts three weeks (January 4 to 20). Our spring term will begin on the first Monday — rather than the first Tuesday — after the Martin Luther King holiday. These courses are...

Manic Monday

Moby-Dick, New York, Scholarship and Teaching

And not “just another” manic Monday. In fact, I can’t remember another day on which I’ve had to give three big public performances — and on different subjects to boot (though in my mind there are significant areas of overlap among them)....