“Without fail I would find Dave sitting exactly where I saw him last, perched at the west-end of the bar beside the telephone where he watched it all play out...” —Peter Koch

"To think Napoleon Hill or Robert Kiyosaki has anything to teach these people about courage or mental fortitude diminishes the integrity of their struggle." —Henry Staley

“Even Angelenos' preferred defense mechanism, selective amnesia, can be seen as a precondition for regeneration." —Henry Staley

"The trip to Georgia showed me that some of us survive wars—not just physically but also spiritually—by preserving culture."—David Stromberg

"A football hits Mary Wollstonecraft firmly on her side. Inscribed below: 'I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.'"—Kitya Mark

"Motion sensor east hall. Glass break guest room. Patio door open, west hallway motion sensor, panel overheat. Then silence."—Christopher Fudurich

“As climate change and conservation alter animal habitat, critters once slaughtered are finding their way back into human habitat."—Victoria Nelson

“At Stanford, everybody went Maoist in the fall of ‘68... My first day I found the SDS recruiting table at registration and signed up." —Andrew Moss

“I’ve never stopped thinking of those depictions as a map back home to a moment when the future seemed uncomplicatedly good." —Rose McMackin

"I got on the horn and heard, in his inimitable voice, 'Mr. Wasserman, this is Orson Welles.'"—Steve Wasserman

"André 3000 has long understood the importance of presentation, of style, of toying with signifiers and recycling them for his own ends."—Jeff Hewitt

"Warhol's works have an uncanny ability to project the viewer, and their preconceptions about the West, back at themselves."—Jacqui Devanay

"Bodies in furious motion here awaiting four minutes in which we yearn to be overcome, rapt in attention, heads upturned for the infinite"—Marius Sosnowski

"Bibi, who is a master of manipulation, will hang everyone out to dry before taking responsibility for what has happened to our people."—David Stromberg

"Losing a way of life will always be painful. Once lost, the people and places that defined it are gone. All we can do is remember them."—Jeff Hewitt

"Through the use of color and shape and his eye for light, Biberman endowed the built environment with a sense of mystery"—Marius Sosnowski

"I was at the rally for the first Aldermaston March in 1958—the first march against nuclear weapons in England..."—Andrew Moss

"She seemed to be suggesting that by having to fight for something that feels so basic, we had somehow lost it already."—David Stromberg

—Philippe Aronson. "It dawned on me that I now had a perfect excuse to contact some of the writers from that time I was interested in—the alte kackers!"

“I was no longer sure I could trust my senses or my memory. The country seemed corrupted by a latent sadomasochistic impulse." —G.V. Rindborg

"If Monet hadn’t been so ambitious—Clear Morning with Willows is 42 feet long—I might have found God." —by Sky O'Brien

"Art escapes concreteness, it eludes definition and so its essence and worth are intractably subjective, its value uncompromisingly opaque."

"In Mensagem, Pessoa acutely captures this longing... 'The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.'"

“These landscapes seem destined to return to what they were before central California was transformed into, what conservationists might call, drowned cathedrals.” —Cole Hersey.

“Hours later, lying in bed half-drunk, I...thought: ‘the intimacy of architecture has been surmounted by sociability.'" —Julian Harake

“'The flat has an incredible view over Athens with absolutely no neighbours in sight.'” Athens has a short-term rental problem.

What will resume, when life resumes? Will the new normal resemble the old normal? Who, if anyone, decides?

A case of the Dodger Stadium blues: a history of medical malpractice and Chavez Ravine, a couple ties that bind.

A dispatch from the South West forests outside of Perth, in Western Australia.

A generation of migratory, extractive, and remorseless urban professionals. What do they mean for the future of cities?

“A nonconformist to the end, the New York Times reported that Ferlinghetti died of lung disease, not the virus. He was 101 years old. The lawyers had taken their time." —Sky O'Brien

“As I was leaving I walked to the balcony, looked out at the Pont-Neuf and saw a Big Bus crossing the bridge. And I wasn’t on it.” —Philippe Aronson

“Pilgrims, all of us, now and then would continue to traverse this land unsatisfied, in a frenzied chase of something that flickers indistinct and unfixed.” —Marius Sosnowski

“Fires are not guerillas divorced from the landscape. In Australia, fires are the landscape, and have been for thousands of years.” —Sky O'Brien

“I find solace in the depressing reminder that punishing the weak and disenfranchised for inconveniencing the rich with their very existence is the story of America.” —Greg Roque

“My mother and I started cooking together over WhatsApp video calls as if turmeric and garam masala were the antidotes to distance and the uncertainty of our reunion”—Devyani Joshi