- One afternoon last winter, two ships lined up side by side in a field of pack ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica. They belonged to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante organization founded by Paul Watson, thirty years ago, to protect the world’s marine life from the destructive habits and the voracious appetites of humankind…
- Video: Sea Shepherd in action
- Audio: Khatchadourian on Sea Shepherd
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Future Reading
- by Anthony Grafton
- Digitization and its discontents.
- Online Only: A tour of digital collections
- The Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies wrap up their World Series this week, at last delivering a winner at the end of a season of spectacular losses in baseball. The art of losing isn’t hard to master, as Elizabeth Bishop told us, and for stretches in the late going this year it seemed as if the teams and the players were only out there to illuminate the maxim…
- Ben McGrath on Manny Ramirez
- McGrath on Scott Boras
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