#96, June 24, 2017: Reviews, Op-eds, and Interviews about “The Wasting of Borneo”
Washington Post review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-headhunting-once-thrived-natives-now-gather-before-communal-televisions/2017/05/12/5cd11322-1003-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.53aa3c6c11ea
Millbrook Independent review: http://www.themillbrookindependent.com/content/wasting-borneo-dispatches-vanishing-world
Op-ed on Yale’s Environment 360 site: http://e360.yale.edu/features/vanishing-borneo-saving-one-of-worlds-last-great-places-palm-oil
Interview on Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/borneos-biocultural-holocaust-an-interview-with-author-alex-shoumatoff/
#95: A 1997 tour of the 35 Remaining Great Camps Tucked Away on Six Million Acres of Woods and Adirondacks Mountains of Upstate New York
Download the article here.
#94: In Search of the Source of AIDS, A Month-long Journey Across Africa in the Fall of 1987
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#93: Thoughts on the Future of the Planet for “Global Chorus”
Download excerpt from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
#92: A Tribute To My Great Grammar School Teachers
Download “We Knew What Love Was”
#91, March 8, 2017: Mystery on the Savanna: The Last Giraffe
Smithsonian Magazine has published my piece on the giraffes, with beautiful photos by Melissa Groo.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/save-giraffes-put-our-necks-out-180962128/
#90, January 2, 2017: A Review of Nathan Farb’s Show, “The Russians”
Here’s a review of my dear friend photographer Nathan Farb’s show, “The Russians,”
The young Bob Dylan was a poet, an inspired one.
The prophet of the counterculture, six years older than me. In l967 I was twenty years old and in my last year of Harvard, studying poetry composition with Robert Lowell, who had inherited the mantle of greatest living poet in the great English tradition after the death of Robert Frost. I had studied ancient Greek …Read More
#89: Louis Sarno, the Ba-Benjellé of the Central African Republic, and Their Beautiful Music
This is the full text of an introduction I wrote for the new, Trinity Press edition of Louis Sarno’s memoir, Song From The Forest. It was edited down, and stuff about other Pygmy groups and their music was taken out, so I am putting the original version here.
I long to get back to Yandoumbe and …Read More
DVW is live!
My son Andre, the co-founder of DVW, and his team at Digital Media Associates, in Park City, Utah, have done a magnificent job of redesigning the site, which was hacked and we haven’t been able to put up anything on it since February. This is its third iteration, and the most beautiful and functional one …Read More