The booksellers of America do a high percentage of their business in the six weeks leading up to Christmas. In the six weeks since, avoiding miserable weather, I have been working my way through a stack of Christmas gifts and … Continue reading
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Last week’s midterms revealed the electorate — left, right, and center — believed the country, and the world, were going to wrack and ruin. This suggested to me the time is ripe for an appreciation of actual ruins. The subject … Continue reading
Lovers of any art love to be pointed in the direction of some practitioner — painter, dancer, director, writer — they haven’t discovered yet. Readers are lucky in that books so often lead on to other books. Several years ago … Continue reading