Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
March 20, 2025“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
March 20, 2025Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
March 20, 2025President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
March 19, 2025"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
March 19, 2025"The Internet, of course, is a huge source of data. Every click and keystroke can be...
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
March 18, 2025"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
X-ray Photographs of David Arky
March 18, 2025Duane Michals expressed it well when he said, “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is...
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...




