Meg Bernhard

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Meg Bernhard

By Meg Bernhard March 11, 2025 Alfalfa smells warm and earthy and sort of sweet, like socks after a long hike, but not in a bad way. It is soft, with oblong green leaves the size of a pinkie nail.I know this because on a chilly February afternoon I drove a hundred and forty miles to the Imperial Valley, one of the state’s largest farming regions, pulled over to an unattended field, and ripped up a clump.

Jan 24, 2025 | nytimes.com | Meg Bernhard

Few Americans follow the nation's lithium-mining industry as closely as Patrick Donnelly. Since 2021, he has set up 30 or so Google Alerts for variations on the word "lithium," and he uses the findings to populate an online map of projects across the West.

Dec 19, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard |Michaela Cavanagh |Rollie Pemberton

Fifteen minutes into Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960), you sense that this is a movie about lying adults. Anna (played by Lea Massari) is on a yacht cruise with a group of friends near an abandoned island off Sicily. She is lolling about the waves in her swimsuit when she cries that she has spotted a shark. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), her architect boyfriend, rushes to her aid and escorts her safely back to their boat.

Oct 23, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Rollie Pemberton |Carleigh Baker |Abhrajyoti Chakraborty |Meg Bernhard

Welcome to Mind in Bloom, a column deconstructing current events, music and art. A couple weekends ago, on a layover after playing a show in Hamburg, I found myself with some friends at a rock bar on a typically soggy night in East London. Having recently gotten the Sunfly mascot tattooed onto my forearm, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was karaoke night.

Apr 3, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Meg Bernhard |Nora Lange |Niko Stratis |Krista Diamond

In the early aughts, Frank Warren ran a medical document delivery business in Germantown, Maryland. It was a monotonous job, involving daily trips to government offices to copy thousands of pages of journal articles for pharmaceutical companies, law firms, and non-profits. By his early forties, he had a house in a nice subdivision, a wife, a young daughter, and a dog.