There's a thousand-plus Amazon reviews, stacks of articles, and shelves of commentaries. What can I add? Unlike most readers, I worked ...

This novelist likes tales of downscale academics, overeducated drones downsized to cubicles. "The Lecturer's Tale" ended with...

Better cuisine, exotic wares: Europeans often rationalize benefits of Third World immigration. What of the cultural and political costs of...

Bás a fháil den ghórta mór duine Éireannach go leor. Chuir mé cuairt an leacht i ómós orthu. Chuaigh mé go dtí Nua-Eabhrac an deireadh tseac...

Chaucer's conniving Pardoner and crafty friars may linger longer in memory, but real-life counterparts of those who preached sermons and...

Along with Helen Waddell's "Peter Abelard," this novel recreates the struggle for individual conscience against clerical con...

Fixing a sewer pipe, buying paint, wielding a chainsaw, riding a motorcycle, and changing a diaper: Zen moments can arrive anytime. Poet a...

This Irish poet-critic teaches in St. Louis and frequently summers in Colorado. His continental crossings led him to connect writers from th...

This 1992 account on "the Tragedy of Sri Lanka" lives up (or down) to its title. Grim and dispiriting, nevertheless this American ...

Can we find ourselves on the road? Or, does travel increase longing for home, loneliness, isolation? An experienced "China expert,...

I drove out to UC Riverside yesterday to hear a professor in from Cork talk about perhaps the first Irish Buddhist monk. At least the first ...

Fhreastail mé pósadh agus dhá chomthíonol cuimhne faoi deireanach. Bhí pósadh gharneacht na mbean cheile agam ar feadh mhean an mhí hAibreal...

Has the American right-wing conspired to take down state universities? Does a “multiracial, worker-inclusive majority” benefiting from hi...