“Tear it up,” says Kurt Vonnegut
“Write a six line poem, about anything…”
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (book review)
William Bernstein forgets the inequality bit…
Book review: War and Peace, Second Epilogue
…something different: Tolstoy’s epilogue on history…
-30- The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper
bad news about the news (book review)
More ways to dance (a nature poem)
“…this wood is a full mystery again…” (“Walk this way”)
The Zookeeper’s Wife (book review)
“…Killers passed them daily…”—by Diane Ackerman
Old Friends (book review)
Tracy Kidder tells truth about old age…
For All the Tea in China (book review)
Sarah Rose brews the whole ugly story
How the Irish Became White (book review)
another slice of American history by Noel Ignatiev
iambic pentameter, y’know?
da DUH, da DUH, and stuff…