Mark MoranChimney Swifts and Quarantine: The Only News You Need to KnowI was visiting a friend in Baltimore, a bird-lover who was taking me to the spot of a seasonal birdwatching attraction: the roosting of a…Mar 27, 2021Mar 27, 2021
Mark MoranThe Only News You Really Need to KnowDidn’t Paul Simon have a song long ago that went, “I get all the news that I need from the weather report….”?Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Mark MoranBecoming More Yourself as Your Fall“I wish I had a river I could skate away on…..”Jan 21, 2021Jan 21, 2021
Mark MoranDaring to Be Hopeful: (Or Maybe the Center Can Hold)What a perilous moment. However, as dark as it is (trust me, I can normally find a raincloud on the sunniest of days) I want to suggest…Jan 13, 2021Jan 13, 2021
Mark MoranAt the Fork Between Two Dead Ends: Slim Hope in the Time of Trumpism and the Woke Cancel Phenomenon“This counter-movement is predictable because the cancel phenomenon is not one that anyone really likes; it is an entirely negative…Jul 24, 20201Jul 24, 20201
Mark MoranPointing Beyond Absence: Poetry, and the Voice You Are Waiting to HearWhen I was 25, no great or avid reader of poetry, I read in a magazine the following poem, entitled, “Itself Now,” by Mark Strand and was…Jul 23, 2020Jul 23, 2020
Mark MoranRewriting History: Five Historical NovelsEvery story is a form of history, no?Five of my favorite novels, described below, are historical fiction, a form that inhabits a continuum from the telling of known historical…Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
Mark MoranTrump and American Authoritarianism: Rationalization and the Destruction of NormsFrom the beginning of Donald Trump’s ascent to the deafening, crazy-making presence he has now attained in our lives, there have been…Jul 20, 2020Jul 20, 2020
Mark MoranA Fine Fragile Thing Shattered: War and Pieces at Hillwood EstateMarjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate Museum is a lot of things, but one thing I never thought of it as is a shrine to postmodern…Jul 20, 2020Jul 20, 2020
