My adult son, worried about my health, urged me to flee. But New York doesn’t let go easily. I didn’t want to leave the city. If the thou...

The first month of the pandemic in the US The Trump administration’s failing response to COVID-19 has prompted governors and mayors to st...

The following is an excerpt from a manuscript called HOW TO BE ALONE IN DENMARK, which centers around a 300-year-old peasant's cottage wh...

A guy who says he's the virus-man keeps up with me no matter how fast I run. That's weird because he's sickly-looking, needs a shave, has...

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Donald Trump’s achievements thus far have been rhetorical. But whether Democrats can take advantage of his weakness remains doubtful. Fol...

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As Donald Trump appals and captivates the world in equal measure, another New York businessman is quietly positioning himself for power. ...

In the latest of his Battle Dispatches from the electoral front, George Blecher visits the heartlands of the Trump vote in the swing stat...

I owned the cottage right from the beginning. Or it owned me. For one thing, it was so old. Later we found it on maps dating back to the ...

George Blecher pinpoints exactly what it is that confuses Americans about the actions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, prior to the bombing of ...

He pointed a way for American fiction out of the doldrums of postmodernism, writes George Blecher. For a culture troubled by the corrosiv...

Email, text messaging and social networks have revolutionized the way we communicate. Yet as the magic of instantaneity fades, George Ble...

Tough materialism and existential frankness, an awareness of one’s mortality balanced by the refusal to talk bullshit: George Blecher sel...

No translator can translate equally well. A lot gets lost in translation. Some languages don’t translate well. These are just some of the...

At first you don’t notice them. They’re so skinny that in a crowd of three or more at a street corner or in a mall, they disappear. When ...

Eating in a Manhattan midtown restaurant the other night, I happened to glance over at the bar area. People were perched on bar stools, ...

In the light of the American presidential election in November 2004, George Blecher muses on the growing gap between those sympathising w...