Anecdotal Evidence

Asked why wit was so characteristic of British writing, at least as of 1998, the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald replied :   “Wit means self-...

A friend wrote first thing Wednesday morning telling me Norman Podhoretz had died at age ninety-five. It was like hearing the last sequoia h...

“It is in order to help the young who are entering on careers, and those of all ages who desire to extend those delights and spiritual devel...

In a conversation with a well-read friend I had a disturbing realization: my love of American literature is rather constricted. I feel almos...

If I had the right to design a friend, someone to possess all the qualities I most value in a companion, my first ingredient might be curios...

No need to dispense with writers rendered neutral by the passing of years. It happens naturally. Time discards what no longer seems interest...

"So many have died before us, that our deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . . . after so many . . . funeral dirges he must ...