Stories By Michael
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Linguist Nicholas Ostler
December 2, 2025"...This is clearly boosting English learning at the moment, but there are already signs that something...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Richard Lanham Discusses the “Attention Economy”
December 2, 2025"All around us we see signs of this confusion. Americans are often called a "materialistic" people...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer
December 1, 2025"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...
Architecture
An Interview With Architect Charles Jencks
December 1, 2025"Narcissism? Culture in decline? It's the whole world. Venice was narcissistic, full of iconic buildings, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Jonathan Kaplan
December 1, 2025"I was in Baghdad as a volunteer surgeon, but operating was difficult. The city’s hospitals had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Scott Zesch
December 1, 2025"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
Fiction Reviews
Timothy Watts Interview
November 30, 2025"He's actually a pretty good mechanic and somewhere in Philadelphia he's running a pretty successful chop...
Non-Fiction Reviews
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
November 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Camille Paglia Discusses Her New Book Break, Blow, Burn
November 29, 2025"American culture is swamped with dizzying media images, which have become a primary form of communication....
Philosophy
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...




