In response to my 11/27 post, a concerned reader writes: “And yet a little historical perspective is in order. Making a living...
Ulysses
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That Four-Letter Word
Towards the end of Ulysses, Bloom asks Stephen why it is that he left the house of his father. Stephen’s prompt response: To...
Chess Problems
In some ways, I wish I hadn’t read Strong Opinions, the volume of Nabokov interviews. Mostly, I guess, because he used to seem a...
Nabokov Nabokov
Winston Churchill once characterized Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” What would he have made of...
A Kinder, Gentler Novel
A reader (who defined herself as ‘a young 83’) wrote to me last week to let me she was enjoying The Great American Desert, and...