Anecdotal Evidence

“I have a dreamy way of withdrawing into myself, and, besides, a dull and childish ignorance of many common things.”   Among the most rewa...

How often have you encountered a poem or other piece of writing that not only provoked astonishment on first reading but continues to do so ...

Czesław Miłosz wrote “In Warsaw” in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II: “I did not want to love so. That was not my design. ...

Perhaps it’s age but I find growing satisfaction in resolution. I like stories that conclude satisfyingly, often ending where they started, ...

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...