Amid amazing meteorological accidents    A young couple moves away from the others on the ark,    -- Is this ancient, pardonable...

The Defense of Marriage Act, lately ruled unconstitution- al by the Supreme Court of the United States, rested on a bit of statutory hu...

Not long ago, I defended having weathered another Summer without Proust,   as escaping a kind of in- tellectual nuisance, like his gre...

The papers are full of an ex- citement one can well imagine, that Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn is now playing on the screen. He requires ...

  One almost cannot bear to glance   at the superficiality of remarks   in print at the moment, on the   causes and consequences of Joe ...

   But why was Pentheus there?    He went to mock the gods,    and your rituals.    But we - why were we there?    You were out of y...

What we like about this game, and have every reason to believe, Hera-clitus figured out, is that the trouvaille doesn't so...

  Kandinsky in Dessau   between the wars,    Walter Gropius, ar-   chitect.   I've been neglect-   ing my reading a- ...