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Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles

Viral portraiture

Of 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…

4 min readMay 10, 2021

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Viral portraiture

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Matthew Battles

The Dogs in the Trees

The 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’…

9 min readSep 11, 2018

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Matthew Battles

Camera Lucida

My middle-aged memories of the house by the sea, like the photographs my family took there, have a veiled provenance. Caught amidst…

15 min readSep 3, 2018

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Camera Lucida

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Matthew Battles

This blue-green conversation

I 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…

3 min readSep 2, 2018

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Matthew Battles

The Unicorn

Allen Dwiggins lived by himself in a brick townhouse in an old, forgotten neighborhood. A graphic designer, he went to work each day in a…

8 min readAug 29, 2018

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The Unicorn

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Matthew Battles

Eureka: lightning, sympathy, and the lively limits of perception

Last 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…

5 min readJul 10, 2018

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Matthew Battles

Missing minor things

from Bethany Nowviskie’s reconstitute the world [12 June 2018]:

3 min readJul 2, 2018

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Missing minor things

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Matthew Battles

Dark 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…

4 min readJun 26, 2018

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Dark pictures, thrones, poems that take a thousand years to die: algorithms, butterflies, and…

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Matthew Battles

Time and the Selva Oscura

Midway through the Andrews Forest residency, my day opens at a trailhead marked with a sign in moss-furred wood: EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED…

5 min readJun 25, 2018

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Time and the Selva Oscura

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Matthew Battles

Cry, They Are Called

In old-growth forest, a more-than-human mythology finds refuge

9 min readJun 16, 2018

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Cry, They Are Called

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Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles

Editor of Arnoldia at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum; author of Tree (Bloomsbury) and other books. Amid on the Roxbury conglomerate, on stolen Massachusett ground.

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