Anecdotal Evidence

The feuilleton is an attractively flexible form, part journalism, part essay, that has seldom successfully crossed the Atlantic. The name i...

Charles Lamb in a letter to his childhood friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge on October 30, 1809:   “I have put up shelves. You never saw a bo...

J.J. Kimche writes in his most recent edition of The Jew from Nowhere, “Who Shall Sway Over the Trees?”:   “One of the abiding oddities o...

" Literature is insight and synthesis, which means that poetry, ultimately, is heroic. Naked, weak, hungry, trembling, endangered by al...

“Anyone who says the artist’s field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. . . . You a...

I often think about the continuity of personality. Not in the abstract sense, as an academic exercise in human psychology. Rather, as an asp...

The Crimean War (1854-56) is remembered in the West for being the first photographically documented major conflict and for Tennyson’s barnbu...