Tragedy is a gift from the gods to men. I am not talking about the tragedy of the tragic poets….
Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….
I do not yearn for a virgin nature, a nature without the peasant’s ennobling footprint and without the palace crowning…
Having witnessed the rising action in Grisy-Suisnes, the climax in the Chamber of Deputies, and the denouement that followed, it…
Find part one here. Find Part III here. Again the grand drape rises, but now we find ourselves in the…
El reaccionario neto no es soñador de pasados abolidos, Sino cazador de sombras sagradas sobre las colinas eternas The pure…
Sculpte, lime, cisèle; Que ton rêve flottant Se scelle Dans le bloc résistant! Sculpt, and file, and chisel away; So…
Yunnan, 1914 It is summertime in the lush hill country of southwestern China, and the air is suffused with a…
Wang-sun Chia asked: “What does this saying mean: ‘It is better to sacrifice to the god of the stove than…