Stories By Jascha Kessler
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Education
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
November 28, 2022X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
July 31, 2022The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
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Biography
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 31, 2022It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
July 29, 2022One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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Movies
Who is Rita, What Was She?
July 25, 2022Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
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Death
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 12, 2022Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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Books
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
July 4, 2022Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
June 30, 2022And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
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Biography
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 24, 2022It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Crossing Styx
June 18, 2022What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...