Anecdotal Evidence

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...

Marius Kociejowski has written to tell me the poet, critic, translator, Islamic scholar and voluptuary of sound Eric Ormsby has died, appare...

Among humans, complaining is always annoying. Short of murder, rape, theft and treason, it may be our most detestable quality. A complainer ...

  This blog has been around for more than twenty years and I could easily devote the next twenty to replying to the complaints I often recei...