When I was a boy, I loved numbers, and I still do. Only when I was a sophomore at Princeton…

I have seen Aida many times over the years but none with a set so imaginative and none with “acting singers”…

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I…

We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to…

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I have just finished reading the latest book by a man with gray hair, almost snow white, perhaps snow with…

In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared…

According to recent reports, if you are a student at the University of Nottingham and you are going to sign…

Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of…

Ethik und Ästhetik sind Eins. “Ethics and aesthetics are one,” or so the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein asserted in his…