Happy birthday to a dear friend; happy birthday to anyone with a birthday this month. Please take a minute or two (after reading), and go...

#Tolstoy is hot right now, in part because we have the time to read his ten-gallon books; and also because his later non-fictional books ...

Adieu to a thoughtful reader of this blog, #Ripp #Smith, a close friend of Lynne and myself, so kind, so wise, an exuberantly antic man, ...

In the second season of the marvelous Fellini-esque #Young Pope series, the third, John #Malkovich pope, ascending after the megalo-imper...

What a story! The #Medusa sails from France toward Senegal, along with three other frigates, carrying the rudimentary population of a new...

May 31 #Masks of course are everywhere. Encountering a friend last week, she laughed––it’s so nice to, well––not see you. Masks #conceal,...