Stories By Jascha Kessler
Education
Archival Culture(s)
November 26, 2025It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
July 31, 2025X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
History
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
April 1, 2025It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
March 31, 2025The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
March 30, 2025One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Politics
Who is Rita, What Was She?
March 26, 2025Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Fiction Reviews
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
March 11, 2025Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Short Stories
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
March 3, 2025Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
History
Comrade J by Pete Earley
February 22, 2025It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...




