Editor’s Note: Last week tragedy struck and deprived the serious reading world of Terry Teachout, the arts and theatre critic…
Just as his hero, Orson Welles, is remembered mainly for Citizen Kane, the first of the 16 films he directed,…
Of course the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year of 2021 had to finish its cruel handiwork by taking…
The sad news of the death of John Madden has been met with the tidal wave of praise and appreciation…
Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, was a California girl, born to an affluent family…
When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just…
It was a neighborhood Fourth of July BBQ, 2011. I had recently returned from my third combat deployment in Afghanistan….
Former Republican Senator, majority leader, and 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning. He was 98,…
In Finishing the Hat (2010) and Look, I Made a Hat (2011), his two massive compendia of his own lyrics, complete…