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,…
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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…
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. It is one of…
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…
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (1602) oil on canvas (52.6 in × 66.7 in) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Owing to my concentration on book length projects of late it has been…
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…
[Continued from 94. 2] A multiple book review essay on: Iron and Silk (1987), Mark Salzman Twilight In the Forbidden City (Revised 4th Edition, 2009) Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston River…
A multiple book review essay on: Iron and Silk (1987), Mark Salzman Twilight In the Forbidden City (Revised 4th Edition, 2009) Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston River Town: Two Years on…
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. It is one of…
My mind kept returning to that last scene in Robert Towne’s screenplay of Chinatown (1974) when Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) is slumped over the wailing horn of her car, shot dead, and…
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