Anecdotal Evidence

Who is being described and who is doing the describing: “His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on ligh...

“Contempt for the past is an inbuilt feature of modernity, its preoccupation with change and the future, its determination to be new and dif...

A reader has sent me yet another lengthy screed about the State of the World and it leaves me as ignorant as I was before reading most of it...

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...