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,…
Cats and Dogs Dogs have owners; cats have staff. That's now a familiar saying but just as accurate nonetheless And…