Anecdotal Evidence

An old friend tells me he’s reading Sir Thomas Browne for the first time – Religio Medici (1643) – and having a wonderful time. If you like...

One of my favorite contemporary poets is Deborah Warren, who lives in Massachusetts. She’s smart, technically adroit, has a musical ear and ...

Some years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called MGUS (pronounced EM -gus) -- monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. It’...

“It happened to me last year to lose my home with all contents in a night of that phenomenon that we oddly called blitz , though why we shou...

“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. ...