Articles Written By Tobias Seamon
Tobias Seamon is author of The Magician’s Study and The Emperor’s Toy Chest. A fabulist novella, The Fair Grounds, about the world’s greatest cemetery architect, is forthcoming this fall from PS Publishing (UK). He lives in Albany, NY, and here as well
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Things
Fisherman’s Friend lozenges
Wintertime: when indoor heat turns your sinuses into Saharan sand cavities and everyone at work drips with plague and pestilence. Suffer the wheezes no more, though, with Fisherman's Friend lozenges,...
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Personal Essays
The Green Ghost of Sleepy Hollow
The Kinderhook area of New York is famously haunted. Though is it only by our own thoughts, or from something altogether different? Memories of home turn up the family spirits.
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Books
Wolves Eat Dogs
Anyone who missed Wolves Eat Dogs should put Martin Cruz Smith's 2005 thriller at the top of their holiday list. Melancholic detective Arkady Renko is forced to investigate murder in Chernobyl's...
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Politics
Life Goes On?
The Gulf Coast is in ruins, but that won’t stop the political machine from running—in fact, it means it’s only getting revved up. Our writer watches the waves of disaster that just won’t stop.
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Things
Replica Baseball Gear
Enough of mall-rat Yankees gear. Show some style with replica baseball clothing from Ebbets Field Flannels. So money but you don't even know it? Try a Hollywood Stars jersey on...
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Things
Grass
Long grass, shiny grass, waxen grass, flaxen grass, public grass, private grass, grass that's fresh on the lawn, grass in a field you've just sat on, grass that's old, grass...
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Books
The Portrait
A slender novel that does Robert Browning's dramatic monologues proud, The Portrait by Iain Pears is an unforgettable vengeance scenario. When retired painter Henry MacAlpine lures famed critic (and former...
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Books
The Golden Compass
The first of Philip Pullman's excellent His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy, The Golden Compass is loads of fun. The story centers on young Lyra Silvertongue as she becomes enmeshed in...
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Personal Essays
A View From the Crow’s Wood
You would’ve paid more attention in history class if they taught you what early Dutch settlements were really like. An opportunity to sift through the artifacts at an 18th century Hudson Valley home reveals a way of life that is as odd as it is oddly familiar.
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Opinions
Juiced
Can Congress get baseball to go cold turkey off steroids? And how many passionate pleas will it take? Our representative speaks, passionately and otherwise, rooting out those who seek enhancements of every kind.
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Personalities
Memento Mori
Who was Hunter S. Thompson? To everyone who followed him, he was somebody different. Our writer remembers his reading life with the Good Doctor.
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The Non-Expert
What We Are When We Are at Home
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we field a tough question about why Americans are so obsessed with smell, and demonstrate how Americans’ odor concerns know no borders.