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…
Nearly 60 years ago, the renowned prose stylist and infamous Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh passed away. On Easter Sunday (April…
