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by | Apr 24, 2025

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

by | Apr 1, 2025

Arguably America’s finest writer of the 20th century, Flannery O’Connor was born 100 years ago. Although she has been dead…

by | Mar 21, 2025

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

by | Mar 16, 2025

Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…

by | Jan 27, 2025

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

by | Jan 14, 2025

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

by | Jan 5, 2025

There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain…

by | Dec 14, 2024

Not a great many English-speaking Americans — there still are some — have heard of Boualem Sansal, fewer have read…

by | Nov 30, 2024

The recent death of Sandra M. Gilbert at the age of 87 sent my mind reeling back decades to the…

by | Nov 25, 2024

This week at Thales College, my students encountered T. S. Eliot’s broken epic of social, spiritual, and intellectual fragmentation, The…

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