Co je napsáno, to nesmyješ. [What is written, you cannot wash away.] — Czech proverb The Czech writer, editor, and…

Once, long ago, anyone who took a college freshman English class would have encountered T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste…

The Orwell Foundation, which has done such good work in promoting the study of George Orwell’s writings, has released a…

 Drodzy są i widziani we śnie przyjaciele… [Dear are friends seen in a dream….]  — Adam Mickiewicz, Forefathers’ Eve I…

A tip of the cowboy hat goes to our John Mac Ghlionn for his spot-on lament of the slow but…

In the late ’80s, Green Day exploded out of the Bay Area — three boisterous brats with distorted guitars, bold…

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…