Foolsburg: The History of a Town By Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Vintage, 304 pages, $17) In the spring of 2022, as Russian…
A Refiner’s Fire: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 33) By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press,…
Every year when the school season starts I remember that I was a lousy student in school until I got…
Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across The World of Literature Edited by John McMurtrie (Princeton University Press, 256 pages, $29.95)…
While studying philosophy as an undergrad, I took a seminar on Friedrich Nietzsche. What followed could be described as a…
The Shield of Achilles By W.H. Auden (Princeton University Press, 93 pages, $23) The republication of W.H. Auden’s poetry collection, The…
American poets pioneered free-form verse. Though Walt Whitman did write sometimes in traditional rhyme and meter, he is most famous…
When the rejections began rolling in, there was a universal theme. All the editors of the big publishing houses had…
“I have a theory, and the theory is mine,” says the pompous twit on the old Monty Python show, “which…
