Catalytic Narrative

Wasn't Holmes Jr. the author of that quote? I have it on the authority of my brother, a lawyer, that he was. Google says it's MLK Jr...

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was alerted to this book a while ago, but only recently found it in th...

My daughter sent around this well-reasoned and alarming article from the New Republic. It sent me into a bit of a tailspin, especially as i...

The Three Body Secret of China Some time back in maybe 2016, when I was routinely in Shanghai working for an American College which wanted t...

I said I'd stop this. I'm old and I'm tired much of the time. I'm always in pain. Not debilitating pain, but the kind that m...

You will recognize by tortured non-native English my affinity for Nabokov, who is quite unreadable in Pale Fire . I depended on meme-literat...

Across the span of my lifetime, things have changed with almost breathtaking speed. My tendency, which must be the tendency of most everyone...