Anecdotal Evidence

In 1950, the poet J.V. Cunningham translated from the French a work by the seventeenth-century Jansenist Pierre Nicole, “An Essay on True an...

“But to politicks and literature there must be an end.”   Leave it to Dr. Johnson to remind us of the vanity of our wishes. Human striving...

The poet W.S. Di Piero introduces Montaigne without mentioning his name: “‘Essay’ has embedded in it ‘assay,’ ‘weighing,’ ‘testing,’ ‘proof...

A reader expresses surprise at my admission that I once read William Gibson’s Neuromancer . “I thought you hated science fiction,” he write...

When we think of ferocious predators among animals we likely think of sharks and grizzly bears, big creatures with teeth. But I remember as ...

At the center of the screen is an acute triangle with a rounded bottom. Its shape resembles the pattern left by wipers on a dirty windshield...

Rare is the poet who can simultaneously think and sing. C.H. Sisson once quoted the French critic Charles Maurras saying, “Reason may convi...