Exactly when Thornhill broke    free of the 3-legged race of    what passes for politics, to    enact his own leaps of faith ...

 Who was it, who  thought the in-  nocent wouldn't  also need to be  called?  From Houston to  Kentucky, inno-  cents were lost...

 and in Virginia,   we just got past  another election  day -  the one came too  soon, the other,  too late; but to  be over the su...

   Over the weekend I did some    reading in the new Herodotus,    listened to half of Haydn's     Seasons, and watched a stun-   ...

   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 ...