The candle end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and…
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At…
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his…
I begin this month by highlighting some annotations of the current novel resting in my hands and rinsing my eyes…
This month I turned away from a novel, a book of short stories and turned to a few poets and…
There is no more fatal blunders than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All…
The signing of the Constitution on September 17,1787, ended one debate and began another. Although Oliver Ellsworth and his fellow…
“Jim? My goodness. Where on earth have you been?” He looked past me to see Huck and so repeated the…
There are types of evil, did you know that? There is material evil, that which causes suffering without reference to…
This month I read Required Reading, Why Our American Classics Matter Now, written by Andrew Delbanco. Dr. Delbanco is the…