Before perusing the long and impressive list of Joseph Epstein’s books that fills two pages of the front matter of his latest collection, Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays, I would’ve described myself as very familiar with his work….
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein (Free Press, 269 pages, $29.99) In the introduction to his autobiography, out this month from Free Press (sorry, this doesn’t mean you don’t…
Let it be admitted that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was consequential. One of the most consequential people in history. He was essential to the Bolshevik Revolution, which overthrew the feckless liberals and socialists who had ousted the tsar. He led the…
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
In some sense, writing is guesswork. You put words on a page and hope people like them — generally, some do, and some don’t. Writing is also an incredibly objective thing. Sentences are well-structured and paragraphs flow; if a writer…
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this spring….
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its full publication on Amazon later this…
How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial Prince Koretada, yet in the year 894 A.D. Muneyuki found himself reduced to commoner status by his uncle, the reigning Emperor…
