A large white yacht was coming into the harbor and seven miles out in the horizon you could see a tanker, small...

          Topicality, George Smiley remarks      to Control, is always suspect. If      anything bears him ou...

       No. Listen to me, son.    It's not your fault.    It's not your fault. ...

The other day, looking at James Merrill, the unbur- dening making of art im- pressed me as almost per- fectly captured in his po- em....

Seems a year not to be Summering in the wrong direction. As if the u- sual noise and debris on the Euphrates were not enough, if ...

        . and the wide arms of    trees have lost their    scope."    Cambridge University     lately placed online ...

Who among us can regard it as practical, to ignore The New York Times ? Every now and a- gain, mind, the Times  has to concede th...

An aspect of the palindrome, of the vitality of things flowing back or forth in two directions, draws me (often subconsciously) ...