Anecdotal Evidence

I remember one afternoon as a boy while in the neighbor’s back yard falling in love with the word of . A common preposition suddenly seemed ...

“He is almost as important to me as Shakespeare, and I think of him almost as the second most important writer in English, absurd as that mi...

“H-hour, 0800. Long jets of red flame mixed with thick black smoke rushed out of the muzzles of the huge battleships’ 16-inch guns with a no...

While looking for nothing I found a genuine curiosity: an interview with Tom Wolfe focused on poetry. The interview was conducted in 2011, s...

In 1848, James Russll Lowell published the book-length poem A Fable for Critics . It’s the work of a cocky young man. Lowell was twenty-eigh...

If pushed to choose my favorite literary form, I would reluctantly reject novels and aphorisms and settle on the essay which, in the right h...

I’m skeptical of prophecy, weighing even the scriptural sort against the evidence and the suitability of the prophet. People tend to concur ...