Books
Meaning Loss
In Meaning Loss, Sanje Ratnavale has written a practical and timely contribution to an important debate that all schools should…
Sextortion: Alas! I am undone
Half a century ago I received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who said she had found my name…
Water. Works. Closets.
As always, one thing leads to another. This time it's the post from Gert Loveday's Fun With Books that highlights…
Life Itself
One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…
The Hard Way
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
The Culinary Capers and Comic Catastrophes of Gerald Samper
It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me off to read James Hamilton-Paterson’s…
A Break and Some Rebellious Vulgarity in Very Bad Taste
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." You may not remember…
Five Things: DEI, Poem, Memoir, Library, Anti-Semitism, and Street Thugs
One Last week IntrepidEd News published another of my pieces. This one is about how schools are on the front…
The Ladder and the Beetle
I'm launched on a Wittgenstein project. I thought it was about time I knew more about him and his work…
The Corner That Held Them
On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…