I recently read Howards End  and, long story short, I loved it. The characters are amazing, the text is endlessly quotable: goblin footfa...

Eliot's draft registration card photo, 1918 A hundred years ago today, T.S. Eliot wrote to his mother with his first impressions ab...

This is a book that's hard to pin down. It's a collection of 17 stories by Russian writer Ludmila Petrushevskaya and it falls a...

Yesterday I talked a little about metaphors and I quoted from Davidson's paper What Metaphors Mean . Davidson's paper was philosop...

I wanted to sit down and write a short post about James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and a hippopotamus. Sounds easy enough, right? But one thing led ...

As I mentioned before, I grew tired of our current name/URL and have been longing for a change. My co-bloggers agreed, but it took us a whi...