Excerpts from The Moonlight Chronicles Drawing requires a keen eye and a free hand, to recreate objects and people not as we see them, but as they are. An interview with artist, author, and publisher Dan Price, and a gallery of images from his journals.

Orientalism: Yes or No? It’s one thing to be a Westerner with a healthy respect and admiration for Eastern cultures; it’s another to make your son wear a hijab to soccer practice in order to intimidate opponents. Pasha Malla helps us sort through a few case studies in Orientalism.

The Non-Expert: English Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week Andrew Womack illustrates, exhibits, and displays how proper editing makes English all that more the understandable.

New York, Part I Hundreds of miles of pavement and incredible real-estate prices may suggest that humans have placed an indelible stamp on New York City. But one of our Gotham writers says the wilderness is just biding its time.