Not so gloomy for me. I welcome overcast diffusion rather than glaring heat and dust. I've never acclimated to my native L.A. My theory:...

"Young Chicken. Free Range, Raised without growth stimulants. No added antibiotic. Buddhist style: Head On. Feet On." Label for ...

I found this a letdown. Like two earlier reviewers, I agree that the book loses a lot in translation. You'd think that it wouldn't b...

This anthology collects scholarly essays; it's an accessible volume that, like its inspiration, wears its learning lightly. Merton's...

"The Raj Quartet" dwarfs even Tolstoy in length; like him, Scott wanders where minds captured within historical events and longing...

John Milton opposed the "ex nihilo" theory; recently two cosmologists advance an "ekpyrotic" or cyclical model of our un...

Feicim crobhaing bláthanna ar deic uachtar lé déanaí. Tá mé ag suí ina gcathair suaimhneas thuas an staighre. Éistim go ciuin anois agus ans...

So goes one snarky Twitter-type. "Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest" (NY Times 6/7/09) notes "blogs have a higher failure rat...

It's easy to sum up this work as previous reviewers have; harder to delve into the details in "soundbite" format for this for...

Blintzes, loved by wife and older son, sit in the fridge. Me and younger son passed. The cheese, dairy treat reminded me about Shavuot, the ...

This "New Yorker" 2006 centenary essay on Beckett elegantly encapsulates the man who sought minimal expression, subtracting rather...

"In each moment there is a question, made up of smaller questions, made up of smaller sub-questions, divided by both the senses and by ...