Anecdotal Evidence

“There was no pattern to my reading. It was all hand-to-mouth.” When young I was indiscriminate, reading anything I fancied and that cha...

My nephew texted me Monday afternoon to say a student had committed suicide  in my old high school. She shot herself in the cafeteria. As us...

All I ask is that a book be well-written and teach me something – two conditions admittedly rather vague and subjective. This is no critical...

“Perfect weather. And to think that on such a day people are still dying!”   Sometimes I suspect the human imagination is by nature Gothic...

The only speeding ticket I have ever received was issued by a police officer in Bellevue, Wa., about fifteen years ago. He clocked me doing ...

"If architecture is frozen music (and I think it is), then fortifications are congealed violence. That is to say they are the best sort...

Late in 2024 I was browsing in old issues of The American Scholar  from the era when Joseph Epstein was the editor. In the Winter 1986 issue...