The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
December 19, 2025I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Sudden Onset
December 19, 2025From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
December 17, 2025O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
December 17, 2025Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
The Life of R.K. Narayan
December 16, 2025R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...
Goethe and Tagore – Unexpected Interests
December 14, 2025Goethe and Tagore, separated by time and contexts, but joined in their great felicity over the...




