Lots of appropriately scornful responses to the charity Oxfam's Inclusive Language Guide published this week. First of all, it's 92…
A recent NYTimes Cooking newsletter from Melissa Clark drew my attention to the article about Raghavan Iyer by Kim Severson …
Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…
Felled by the dreaded lurgy in early January I was sidelined from my usual reading routine. It’s hard to concentrate…
Vimeo has taken down the video "Affirmation Generation" but you can see it here. Take the time to watch this…
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
Here's a treat for those who relish fiction with off-the-wall cognitive mayhem - The Hearing Trumpet Suddenly it seemed as…
In Our Flag Stays Red (1948) Phil Piratin - the Communist Party MP for Mile End - wrote an account…
The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
So much gloom, doom, and disaster that it's important to find counterbalances. Here are a few recent bright spots. Glasgow…
I do remember the trial of Dr. Bodkin Adams. My family took The Daily Herald back in 1957 and I…
Poems by Charles Simic (1938-2023) January Children’s fingerprints On a frozen window Of a small schoolhouse. An empire, I read…
I follow the art historian Richard Morris on Twitter and his tweets are a daily delight - each one providing…
Every Christmas growing up my family received a greeting card from the Stingl family. I knew that my grandmother, mother,…