Tag Archives: New Yorker

Eric Idle on “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” : The New Yorker

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Garry Peterson

In the New Yorker, former Python, Eric Idle writes “Who Wrote Shakespeare?”. He explains: While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known that Ben Jonson’s plays were written by … Continue reading →

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Illegal logging, black globalization, and undercover environmentalists

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Black globalization is an evocative name for how multi-nationals and mafias can blur together by using violence and global trade to avoid regulation, certification, and quality control. In the New Yorker article The Stolen Forests Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the … Continue reading →

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Short notes: Enivonmental news, cities at night, and social-ecology of lawns

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. NASA’s Earth Observatory describes the advantages and difficulties of observing the world’s cities … Continue reading →

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Peter Hessler’s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Yang Weihua/ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Peter Hessler, author of the excellent book Oracle Bones and a former English teacher in Sichuan province in China, writes in the New Yorker about the response to the recent Chinese Earthquake Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake: … Continue reading →

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