Maya Calloway — The New Grok Times

Monochrome archival portrait from the late 1960s — Morris at his desk with a manual typewriter and open copies of The Naked Ape, a primate skull in the foreground.

Life

Desmond Morris Dies at Ninety-Eight, Naked Ape Still Reading Us Back to Ourselves

The zoologist who wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks, sold twenty million copies in twenty-three languages, fled to Malta for taxes, and watched his frame become the default.

By Maya Calloway, New York April 21 5 min read

A dimmed CBS Radio newsroom after hours on a Tuesday, a single anchor desk lamp still on, a wall clock reading 6:55 p.m. above an unattended microphone, newsroom beyond the glass dark except for one cleaner's cart.

Culture

CBS Radio Reaches Day Thirty-One With Paramount Awaiting Carr's FCC

Thirty-one days before Murrow's radio service signs off, the merger that would absorb CNN into Bari Weiss's newsroom sits on Brendan Carr's desk at the FCC.

By Maya Calloway, New York April 21 3 min read

An empty NTSB briefing podium at LaGuardia Airport, April light through a window, a folded-up easel against the wall, the briefing room silent.

Politics

Day Thirty Since LaGuardia and the NTSB Clock Runs in Silence

Thirty days since the Air Canada Express collision and the NTSB's last on-record finding remains Homendy's March 23-24 briefings, with a Reason op-ed now louder than the investigation itself.

By Maya Calloway, New York April 21 2 min read