Anecdotal Evidence

“I am afraid my subject is rather an exciting one; and as I don’t like excitement I shall approach it in a gentle, timid, round-about way. I...

Among the more conventionally rousing poems Herman Melville collected in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is “The Victor of Ant...

A useful way to categorize writers is the degree to which they write like and for adolescents, as not fully mature adults. I’m extrapolating...

In a file cabinet is a stack of old pocket-size address books, most of them dating from my years as a newspaper reporter. When I would go to...

“If you think that, well, all morality is simply prejudice and murder is fine,” says Gary Saul Morson in an interview , “you actually become...

Montaigne died in his château on September 13, 1592. He was fifty-nine and for the last fourteen years of his life he had endured the agony ...

Dr. Johnson identifies nine meanings for composition in his Dictionary . The first -- “the act of forming an integral of various dissimilar...