An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement
November 26, 2025"Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible...
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
November 26, 2025It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time
November 26, 2025We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower...
Archival Culture(s)
November 26, 2025It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
Blue State Blues
November 25, 2025The urban African Americans and Hispanics, the Jewish community, the gays and lesbians, the professionals, the...
Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
November 24, 2025Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...




