Anecdotal Evidence

The late Victor Brombert writes in The Pensive Citadel (University of Chicago Press, 2023):   “[T]here is a rarer, quite precious experie...

Kafka somewhere says that impatience is a form of laziness. I would add that it’s also a form of egotism, a presumption that our clocks ough...

I’m reading another book by C.E. Montague , a collection of travel essays, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures (Chatto & Windus, 1924)...

For the first time, my youngest son, working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru, recommended a book for me to read. It was a novel written b...

In 1995, R.L. Barth published the chapbook Samuel Johnson: Selected Latin Poems Translated by Various Hands , with contributions by ten poet...

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...