Daniel Halpern

Jun 30, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Daniel Halpern

You were that person With I shared those moments With That at the time Had meaning only of the moment With Those of us with an earthenware bowl of pasta With A glass of good red wine Well just a room of good friends With Some now departed was it into a neutral air With That friend those friends oneself among others Many others With Plants against a window clear to reveal a river below Their flat green leaves tongues fattened with water And the gravitations of the sun The attention of he who...

Jun 7, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Daniel Halpern

for Chase1. Can’t you not look back? Your past quickly a mirage,smoke drifting the air. 2. Are you certain about this? What of the black holes? Ah, these stellar mysteries. 3. So many simply leaving. Voices without sound,there, white, just beyond hearing. We rely on readers to keep our pages free and open to all. Help sustain a public space for collective reasoning and imagination: become a supporting reader today. The best writing on ideas, politics, and culture delivered straight to your inbox.

Apr 14, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Daniel Halpern

There were three, a marmalade of ponies, just in the field, feeding on grass— one roan, one buckskin, and a chestnut. I put my arms on the fence to wait and watched them, without a carrot or motive for being there. In a while they came gladly to the fence, a ways from where I stood, and hung their long, lovely heads over the wire barrier and looked at me. I was waiting for a friend who was late. There was a café up the road with good food.

Apr 10, 2024 | everand.com | Saqib Shah |Daniel Halpern |Mark Cheverton |Kirk McKeand

Roblox is the biggest game no one talks about. Around 71 million people log into the gaming platform every day, which is higher than the sales of Spider-Man 2, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder combined. So big is its influence that other games are starting to copy it. Fortnite’s latest design, featuring a crude hotchpotch of games created by users, bears a striking resemblance to Roblox. Neither will win any prizes for aesthetic beauty, but their players don’t seem to care.

Mar 14, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Daniel Halpern

I’m going to die before you return, he wanted to write her, becoming an authority on suffering, of wanting to share some of it with those he loved. Not unkindly, but to dilute the deepened passion that hid half exposed in him, like a young child behind a tree, impatient to continue the game, of invisible and discovery. Just a few hours, her perfume on his white shirt and a dark wine from Basilicata in a glass, terroir and that particular fragrance scenting her, between them.