Matthew BattlesViral portraitureOf all things—a scene that has stayed with me, from the late ’70s TV series The Incredible Hulk, since I saw it as a ten-year-old: Bill…May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
Matthew BattlesThe Dogs in the TreesThe first sightings of dogs in trees were reported not long after the Fall equinox. Early rumor came in the form of videos shot at arms’…Sep 11, 20181Sep 11, 20181
Matthew BattlesCamera LucidaMy middle-aged memories of the house by the sea, like the photographs my family took there, have a veiled provenance. Caught amidst…Sep 3, 2018Sep 3, 2018
Matthew BattlesThis blue-green conversationI look out from my living-room window into the dome of my street’s tree canopy, where broccoli tops of oak and cottonwood foliage sway atop…Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
Matthew BattlesThe UnicornAllen Dwiggins lived by himself in a brick townhouse in an old, forgotten neighborhood. A graphic designer, he went to work each day in a…Aug 29, 2018Aug 29, 2018
Matthew BattlesEureka: lightning, sympathy, and the lively limits of perceptionLast month, the New York Times published a story by Steph Lin—“Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?”—reporting out a study from a…Jul 10, 2018Jul 10, 2018
Matthew BattlesMissing minor thingsfrom Bethany Nowviskie’s reconstitute the world [12 June 2018]:Jul 2, 2018Jul 2, 2018
Matthew BattlesDark pictures, thrones, poems that take a thousand years to die: algorithms, butterflies, and…According to the most recent update to the Catalogue of Life, there are 1869 genera in the Geometridae. The larvae of these moths are known…Jun 26, 2018Jun 26, 2018
Matthew BattlesTime and the Selva OscuraMidway through the Andrews Forest residency, my day opens at a trailhead marked with a sign in moss-furred wood: EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED…Jun 25, 2018Jun 25, 2018
Matthew BattlesCry, They Are CalledIn old-growth forest, a more-than-human mythology finds refugeJun 16, 2018Jun 16, 2018
