Gary Snyder, Tree Canopies & Suburbia.   Dana Goodyear's "Zen Master" profile of Gary Snyder (see link to abstract be...

Black Mountain: "Into the Future": Music Review. One of the leading contenders for our decade's innovators? Like their debut, ...

Ag Léamh Leabhair Sula Faighim Bás. Scríobhann muid as Gaeilge faoi bás ach an méidin seo de dhifear. Gheobhaidh muid bás. Sin é, faigheann ...

Joseph O'Connor's "The Salesman": Book Review . "When you looked for Ireland on the weather map in my father's Ne...

Paul Hoffman's "The King's Gambit" Book Review . As a beginner learning about chess, I've been reading accounts aimed ...

Playing Myself in Chess. Bobby Fischer did, so why can't I? Now, I do remember that he wound up crazy. Long prior to his final exile in ...

Ag seinm na gruaim. D'fhoghlaim mé go raibh an frása "tá sé tromchroíoch" an lá eile-- as Beárla deirimid seo chomh "feel...

Main Street as guilty as Wall Street? One small advantage of the financial tremors may be fewer animated ads online with dancing rabbis or s...

Pity the Poor Immigrant? I've sent much of what I've cited below to the L.A. Times' blog following a two-part series on illegal ...

Adam Gopnik on John Stuart Mill. The New Yorker's "critic-at-large" not only gets to live in Paris, he also can read and write...

Des Kenny's 101 Irish Must Reads. This being one-tenth the mortal span of the recently reviewed (by me here and on Amazon US) "1001...