The passion of Poland, from Solidarity through the state of war

By Lawrence Weschler

The Passion of Poland brings together for the first time the complete four-part New Yorker series on the rise and fall of solidarity from its birth in Gdansk through the ravages of martial law. A y...

A Miracle A Universe

By Lawrence Weschler

Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees

By Lawrence Weschler

True to Life Twenty Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

By Lawrence Weschler

Solidarity, Poland in the season of its passion

By Lawrence Weschler

Solidarity, Poland in the season of its passion

By Lawrence Weschler

At the beginning of August 1980, the movement which would eventually become Solidarity consisted of a few dozen individuals scattered throughout Poland. Within a year, as its first anniversary post...

Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder

By Lawrence Weschler

A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists - that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wil...

Vermeer in Bosnia

By Lawrence Weschler

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder

By Lawrence Weschler

Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays...

Vermeer in Bosnia

By Lawrence Weschler

There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, L...