on a Diminishing World," Harper's, June 2007 "Children Are Diamonds," Portland, Fall 2007 "The Broken Balance," The American Scholar, Spring 2008 "A Country for Old Men," The American Scholar, Winter 2009 "Curtain Calls," Harper's, March 2009 "China's Mystic Waters," National Geographic, March 2009 "Journals '04, '05," The Seattle Review, Fall 2009 "Barley and Yaks," Orion, November 2009 "Last Call – Old Age and the End of Nature," Harper's, May 2010 "Spaced Out in the City," American Scholar, Summer 2010 "When I Was Blind," Portland Magazine, Summer 2011 "The Gravity of Falling," The American Scholar, Winter 2012 "The Top of the Continent," Portland Magazine, Winter 2012 "On Friendship," The American Scholar, Winter 2013 "Pity Earth's Creatures," The New York Times, March 23, 2013 Other essays Commencing from March 12, 1979, fifty-plus unsigned editorials in The New York Times: "The Price of Fur," "In the Spring," "Hang-ups," "Mountain House," etc., to 1989 Pequod, Winter 1986 New England Monthly, May 1987 Yankee Homes, September 1989 Manchester Guardian, January 20, 1990; August 12, 1990; March 31, 1991 Anchorage Daily News, June 28, 1992 Vermont, June 1994 The New York Times, January 11, 1986; June 15, 1991; October 5, 1993; May 13, 1995 Rolling Stone, May 28, 1998 Manoa, June 1999 Portland Magazine (Oregon), Summer 1996; Winter 1996; Winter 1997; Spring 2002 The Vineyard Gazette, November 9, 2012 Book reviews In The New York Times Book Review, May 9, 1971; June 13, 1971; February 6, 1972; October 7, 1973; October 21, 1973; December 2, 1973; April 14, 1974; May 19, 1974; "City Walking," June 1, 1975; June 22, 1975; November 9, 1975; December 7, 1975; April 11, 1976; April 18, 1976; May 9, 1976; August 15, 1976; September 5, 1976; November 14, 1976; January 9, 1977; June 19, 1977; August 14, 1977; September 11, 1977; November 27, 1977; December 11, 1977; November 19, 1978; November 26, 1978; January 21, 1979; February 4, 1979; June 24, 1979; July 22, 1979; March 23, 1980; March 30, 1980; June 8, 1980; August 17, 1980; March 15, 1981; November 8, 1981; June 6, 1982; August 29, 1982; October 17, 1982; November 21, 1982; June 12, 1983; January 22, 1984; October, 1984; February 16, 1986; July 19, 1987; September 11, 1988; January 8, 1989; May 7, 1989; March 18, 1990; November 25, 1990; July 2, 2000 In The Boston Herald, December 20, 1970 In The Village Voice, December 30, 1971;