I recently completed a novel set in China around the lives of four Chinese women over most of the 20thcentury. Readers of these pages will be hearing about it soon…
You know those Frenchies: Toujours l’amour, Toujours l’amour, Toujours l’amour. Right? This is no way for Donnie to try to fend off those accusations that he conducts adulterous assignations with…
Come Sunday (20I8), opens with an inflight airplane scene which the Rev. Bishop Carlton Pearson engages a woman seatmate in conversation that leads to his apparently obsessive need to bring…
Don’t know how clever a political actor Kim Jong un is. Not much is known about him beyond his youth and goofy haircut. But this past Easter he met with…
Mitch McConnell’s drag queen tribute to Barbara Bush.
Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Clods and Clowns, announced today that he will not seek reelection to his congressional seat. He intends, he says…
As I write this there are Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem thronging the Via Dolorosa, some of them lugging wooden crosses as their Savior reputedly did long ago, reliving his “stations…
Hauptsturmfurher Sessions I know that we are not supposed to overdo making allusions and comparisons of the Trump administration to that of Adolf Hitler, but day by day Herr Drumpf…
Author and his friend, the Xiezhi (Shee ay gier), Ming Tombs, Beijing (1991) It was nearly three decades that I first met the Xiezhi outside Beijing. The one in this…
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