Author - John W. Farrell

John W. Farrell is the author most recently of The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can’t Live Without. He has written for Commonweal, Aeon, New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Forbes, and The Tablet.

Revenant

I dreamt of my father the night he died. Then for a few years, he’d be there in my sleep. Not directly, but at my side, or sitting nearby The way the closest...

Insolvent Trees

This crazy world is almost overAnd I never got the chance to plant a tree.A tree the way that trees used to be.We live in them now since the plague—Or rather...