
The novel coronavirus has provided me with the time and recommended social isolation to return to a subject that has interested me from my boyhood days. Call me wacky, weird, or wonderful, but
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Normally, it’s the kind of flap that barely snares my attention. I first heard about it on NPR and then began seeing the book show up on some of the literary sites that I peruse as it got more
The benediction “may you live in interesting times” is, of course, an ironic curse. But, so also would be that one should preside over tedious times.
Ken Burns’ 12-hour Vietnam documentary series is airing this week to great fanfare from PBS, as though the treatment of this controversial war might be finally put to bed by its treatment
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (1602) oil on canvas (52.6 in × 66.7 in) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Owing to my concentration
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A Lesson in Guilin
I never taught English in China. In fact, other than a little shipboard course in travel writing I have never taught English anywhere. I doubt that a very brief experience in Guilin
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A multiple book review essay on:
River Town’s broad scope and textual elegance contrasts with Marc. C Rush’s
A multiple book review essay on:
Jimmy, a former graduate student of mine from Bombay, occasionally writes to me about pedagogical matters from the college in China where he has been
The benediction “may you live in interesting times” is, of course, an ironic curse. But, so also would be that one should preside over tedious times.
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My mind kept returning to that last scene in Robert Towne’s screenplay of Chinatown (1974)