Anecdotal Evidence

Theodore Dalrymple sees more in the novels of Agatha Christie than I ever could. Of course, I have not read even a sentence of Christie’s pr...

“[T]he main furnishings of the cottage were Oakeshott’s books. He had disposed of most of those he considered merely informative and retaine...

As usual when I visit Kaboom Books I leave with a stack of books I have already read. I’m a reader, not a collector. To find by serendipity ...

Must condolences, words of consolation, be as sweet and gentle as words of endearment? Do people want to be assured that the pain of grief a...

Edwin Arlington Robinson is likely to remain a one-poem poet for most readers, assuming he is read at all. Of course, one poem is more than ...

“There was no pattern to my reading. It was all hand-to-mouth.” When young I was indiscriminate, reading anything I fancied and that cha...

My nephew texted me Monday afternoon to say a student had committed suicide  in my old high school. She shot herself in the cafeteria. As us...