Anecdotal Evidence

Edmund Blunden’s personal library of some 10,000 volumes is now in the collection at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The university purchas...

Out of the blue a poet sent me a pdf of his latest collection and, out of politeness, not gratitude, I thanked him. The guy can’t write. Or ...

I was an early subscriber to Grand Street , the magazine founded in 1981 by Ben Sonnenberg. What surprises me now is how many of its essays,...

Food seems to have replaced religion and art as a source of consolation and purpose in the lives of many people. I know some who photograph ...

“Ah, pitiful / The twisted memories of an ancient fool / And sweet the silence of a young man dead!” There’s a tendency to romanticize, so...

Thedore Dalrymple has been publishing a series of books with a simple, blog-like premise: he writes about the books he has been reading. Wha...

One is always in danger of being perceived as a fuddy-duddy. Speak admiringly of rhyme in poetry or elegant prose in fiction and risk being ...