Contributor
Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez is the author of Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father and Brown: The Last Discovery of America. He is currently at work on two books, one about the Abrahamic religions and the desert ecology, and the other about beauty.
Recent Writing
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Special Issue 8.5: Surviving Crisis
The loss of five minutes
For over 25 years, “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” on PBS (later called “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and now, simply, “PBS NewsHour”) ended its broadcasts, regularly though unpredictably, with a first-person essay.Issue 38
The Brown Study
Or, as a brown man, I think. But do we really think that color colors thought? Sherlock Holmes occasionally retired to a “brown study”—a kind of moribund funk; I used to imagine a room with brown wallpaper.Issue 24/25 / Issue 19 / In Fact / Hurricanes and Carnivals
