Introduction

What is The New Yorker? I know it’s a great magazine and that it’s a tremendous source of pleasure in my life. But what exactly is it? This blog’s premise is that The New Yorker is a work of art, as worthy of comment and analysis as, say, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Each week I review one or more aspects of the magazine’s latest issue. I suppose it’s possible to describe and analyze an entire issue, but I prefer to keep my reviews brief, and so I usually focus on just one or two pieces, to explore in each the signature style of its author. A piece by Nick Paumgarten is not like a piece by Jill Lepore, and neither is like a piece by Ian Frazier. One could not mistake Collins for Seabrook, or Bilger for Goldfield, or Mogelson for Kolbert. Each has found a style, and it is that style that I respond to as I read, and want to understand and describe.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Acts of Seeing: Sand Dune

Photo by John MacDougall










I took this photo November 9, 2021. It shows the dune at Ross Lane Beach, in Prince Edward Island National Park. To take this picture, I stood on the boardwalk that crosses the dune and goes down to the beach. It’s one of my favorite places. In summer the dune is covered with pink wild roses. But I think I like the fall view slightly better. I love the wheat color of the marram grass dotted with bright red rosehips. The beach and ocean are just on the other side. Unfortunately, on September 24 of this year, Hurricane Fiona blew half this dune away. The above picture preserves the way it used to look – a look we may not see ever again.  

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