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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…

by | Nov 10, 2024

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets By Michael Korda (Liveright Publications,…

by | Oct 7, 2024

This semester at Thales College, I am teaching a survey course focusing on literature, most of it English poetry, from…

by | Oct 6, 2024

A Woman Underground By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 288 pages, $27) Sometimes it takes several entries in a fiction series…

by | Oct 5, 2024

Foolsburg: The History of a Town By Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Vintage, 304 pages, $17) In the spring of 2022, as Russian…

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