Author Archive
September 13, 2022This column is devoted to Western (and sometimes Eastern) “Great Books” or “Classics”. By which process and at what point in time a text reaches this elevated...
September 2, 2022In a used bookshop some years ago, I chanced upon a small volume called “Irish Fairy and Folktales,” edited by none other than W.B. Yeats (1865-1939). Published in 1888,...
August 30, 2022Herman Melville’s (1819-1891) “Lightening Rod Man” was, according to the Library of America, “perhaps the most widely read of his stories during his lifetime...
August 4, 2022Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) responds to a literary critic.
