Margaret Renkl
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
- This shalt have no other gods before me.
- Our power finally came back on late last Thursday, just in time for my fingers to warm up to typing capacity and my brain to warm up to something passing for coherent thought. Tens of thousands of people in Nashville were not nearly so lucky. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
- Reposted by Margaret RenklI keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
- Reposted by Margaret Renkl"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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- Reposted by Margaret RenklWhen Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
- In and among and between the chaos of December, I gave myself over to “Hamnet.”Obligations and headlines and every virus in Nashville swirled in my head, but my heart was deep in the words of Shakespeare and Maggie O’Farrell, and in the images of Chloe Zhao. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
- Wish we had some Republicans like this in Tennessee. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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- Remember the orbweaver I loved last year? The one who built herself a little house out of oak flowers? I have a new arachnid neighbor this year, and she is a delightful mystery. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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- A few words about childhood and loneliness and the fragile, glimmering world. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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- I’ll take “Objective Correlatives” for $500, Ken.
- A few words about my mother, my writers’ group, how I came to write Late Migrations, and how a robot tried to steal it all. And then how Andrea Bartz, tilting at windmills, managed to achieve the unthinkable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
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- We did this. Turns out we ALL know how to save a book festival. And we just have to keep saving them, and saving everything else, for as long as it takes. For every single minute it takes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
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- We can help. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/o...
- A few words about purple martins—how to help them, how to help all migratory birds, how to help birds that don’t migrate—in this week’s essay. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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- Reposted by Margaret Renklthis iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
- A few words about rain. And extravagant vines. And the undeserved protection of trees. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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- Sometimes you get lucky, even in a time when it’s hard to believe in luck anymore. I got lucky last week and saw Tyler Childers playing in the shadow of a giant T-Rex on the side of a highway. I was so happy on the way home I didn’t even think about my bitin’ list. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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- Finally. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
- “It’s a plague. It’s everywhere.” @kristenarnett.bsky.social speaks the truth. lithub.com/if-you-use-a...
- The avian drama is off the charts this year. (Gift link via The New York Times Opinion Section.) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...
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- Just in case you aren’t disheartened enough by this horror show.
- A small bit of news on this hot summer morning: My first picture book, THE WEEDY GARDEN, will be out next February. I hope it will be a reminder that how we manage the bits of soil under our care can be a crucial way to help our wild neighbors thrive.
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- When DOGE included the Freedom Rides Museum in its list of “underutilized” federal buildings targeted for potential sale, I just about lost my mind. The Freedom Riders' moral conviction in the face of hideous injustice is exactly the model we need right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
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- A few words about fences and climbing vines, and about my late neighbor, and about Robert Frost and HIS neighbor. Mostly this piece is a meditation on time and the way it works on the human heart. And the way wildness finds every nook and cranny we leave for it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...
- In case you are wondering exactly which mechanism, of the many options available to it, the federal government will use to wipe us out. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
