My Curious Fascination with Cemeteries

My fascination with cemeteries began when I was a child, when my father would take me to our local one in New Jersey to pay our respects to lost relatives. While he stood in thought over the grave of his father or brother, I’d wander.

Oct 31, 2024 Judy Farah

Tennis, My Beautiful Obsession

One man’s sometimes futile quest to watch matches while traveling around the world

I recall that as a young man I desperately tried to find a television in India’s lower Himalayas to watch one of the many Wimbledon finals in which Pete Sampras appeared — and eventually had to settle for a hotel with a black and white TV and a dubious antenna that, despite the manager swearing up and down would show Wimbledon if I wanted it to, in fact aired nothing but crackle.

Oct 18, 2024 Sasha Abramsky