Great Reads, Gripping Images: Facts and Opinions this Week
It’s been, as it often is in these times, a heavy week in the world — and so let’s begin on the lighter side of life. We offer a gorgeous photo essay about an Italian revival of silk worms, Brian Brennan’s Brief Encounter column with Barry Morse, and Jim McNiven’s baseball yarn. An Italian Renaissance — of Silkworms, a photo essay by Alessandro Bianchi of Reuters Decades after the last silk mills in Veneto, Italy, were shuttered, budding silkmakers – “sericulturists” – are spinning a new niche for high-quality material. Critiquing the Critics: Barry Morse, Brian Brennan, Brief Encounters