Anecdotal Evidence

“Poetry gives us a way of reading the world. Through its cadences, through its different ways of simultaneously conveying reason and feeling...

R.L. Barth has been translating Martial’s epigrams for more than forty years. I think I first encountered his versions in the anthology Epig...

“It is best to open with a simple declaration. I belong to a quaint depleted sect of serious readers who believe that literature exists to m...

Sometimes I suspect I’m a country man marooned in the city, though I grew up in the suburbs. Years ago I read an anthropologist who theorize...

I think I understand a reader who fails to share my pleasure in reading Montaigne. It’s easy to think of the Frenchman as a blowhard whose e...

In 1943, at age forty-three, Yvor Winters was safely beyond draft age but tried to secure a commission in the U.S. Army. He was turned down ...

“Such places are not merely shops. They are glorious strongholds of true civilisation. They refuse to flatter the customer, to congratulate ...