OutdoorHub Staff 07.25.26 It’s taking a moment to find the bait. More people want to know how to find wild food outdoors. mushroom. Jamun. Nuts. Greens. If you camp, hike, or hunt, you’ve probably passed by dozens of edible plants without even realizing it. Natural History Society of Maryland Campaign is being run for field
IIn January 2015, two al-Qaeda members shot dead cartoonists at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the following weeks, my Facebook page split into two. Many of my childhood friends (I grew up in France and went to school near Paris) expressed their
In an email interview, the novelist, playwright and screenwriter expressed surprise at the persistence of comedic works decades later. Scott Heller What books are on your nightstand? Maria Semple’s “Go Gentle,” because she’s hilariously sharp and ultimately kind; Steven Rowley’s “Take Me With You”, because his books are instantly adorable; “John of John,” because come
Shirley Lord, an English-born journalist whose early success on Fleet Street in London led to major jobs at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Helena Rubinstein as well as being sidelined as a best-selling author of steamy novels, and whose high-dose liveliness and marriage in 1987 to AM Rosenthal, former executive editor of The New York Times,
YYou can take two seemingly contradictory lessons from historian David Turner’s new book on disability in the UK. First, worryingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern era (the book’s first few stories, about 17th-century men and women trying to prove they were disabled enough to receive parish support to
by definition, utopia cannot exist. In 1516, educated readers of Thomas More’s Utopia would have appreciated the tension between two possible etymologies of this novel word: the Greek “eu-topos”, meaning good place, and “ou-topos”, meaning no place at all. It might have been a brief warning that one should never attempt to turn utopia into
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Paul Rudnick about his new novel, Tuxedo Society.