Matthew Omolesky
How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial…
Imagine my surprise upon learning, contrary to popular belief and received opinion, that the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle never existed….
The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of…
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter By Gary Saul Morson (Belknap Press:…
The following account contains graphic descriptions of the deaths of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China. La desvergüenza con…
Borys Tymofiyovych Romantschenko was born in 1926 to a farming family living in Bondari, a modest village in Ukraine’s Sumy…
Los países de literatura indigente tienen historia desabrida. [Countries with an impoverished literature have an insipid history.] — Nicolás Gómez…
Fifteen days into Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the two warring countries met in the Turkish…
I Confucius arrived in the Chinese capital one cold winter’s morning and proceeded down broad avenues and through splendid gateways…
A beggar’s book outworths a noble’s blood. —Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I Above the piano in our living room…
