Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at the New Yorker. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Vermeer in Bosnia (2004), And How Are You, Doctor Sacks? (2019), and A Trove of Zohars (2022). His “Passions and Wonders” series includes David Hockney’s Cameraworks and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences, which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992), he was also shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Weschler has taught at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Brown, and is director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013. On Substack he runs Wondercabinet: Lawrence Weschler’s Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse.