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Bruce Murphy

Bruce F. Murphy is a freelance writer living in Rome. He is the editor of Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia (1996; 2008) and the author of several books. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Poetry, Commonweal, the Paris Review, Critical Inquiry, and elsewhere.

Water to Burn?

Today is U.N. World Water Day, and for many of the planet’s residents, one of our most plentiful resources has become all too scarce. The rest of us, writes BRUCE MURPHY, are busy playing golf in the desert. (Op-Ed | March 22, 2007)

Everyone’s Wild About Tami

After months of near-silence, bird flu is back on the West’s front pages. But where is government preparedness, asks BRUCE MURPHY, now that the drug of choice in the virus war turns out to have spawned resistant strains? (Fight or Flight | February 7, 2007)

No Man Is an Island

Considering what may lie ahead otherwise, no amount of money is too great to devote to the fight against avian flu. But while everybody’s spending against each other’s contingency plans, BRUCE MURPHY argues, we’re all left risking something too precious to lose. (Fight or Flight | June 12, 2006)

An Ounce of Prevention

We don’t yet know whether the avian flu will become a pandemic. So why are we preparing for a plague instead of fighting the virus where it currently rages—in the animal kingdom? Conflicting reports and strategies still march on, but time may be running out, says BRUCE MURPHY. (Fight or Flight | May 9, 2006)

What Would Teddy Do?

Last week Maine citizens voted on Question 2—whether or not to outlaw the “baiting, hounding, and trapping“ of bears. So why didn’t such an apparently humane measure pass? Bruce Murphy weighs in from all sides of the bill. (Opinions | November 11, 2004)


TODAY’S FEATURE

Go Climb a Tree

When all you want is get away from it all, just grab a branch, hoist yourself up, and leave your troubles below. RALPH GAMELLI guides you to a peaceful place.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Manguel on Reading

Alberto Manguel writes about his first love.

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