2020-11-06 18:33
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 15. With the 2020 Federal election still not called, and the integrity of the electoral process challenged by the incumbent president, not for a leg… Read More
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2020-11-05 19:15
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 14. As the election count continues unresolved today, political writers observe that we are polarized. We are two Americas, one wrote this mor… Read More
2020-11-04 13:12
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 13. Uncannily, Hamilton opens his 15th paper, which I read on a U.S. election day of historical proportion, saying - look, I've told you how import… Read More
2020-11-02 16:19
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 12. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. We have seen the necessity of the union as o… Read More
2020-11-01 23:56
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 11. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. A nation cannot long exist without revenue. Destitute o… Read More
2020-10-30 14:59
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 10. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton is less concerned in Federalis… Read More
2020-10-28 18:50
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 9. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. In Paper No. 10, James Madison takes the wheel for… Read More
2020-10-25 17:39
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 8. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. It is impossible to read the history of the petty Republ… Read More
2020-10-23 12:18
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 7. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. If we are wise enough to preserve the U… Read More
2020-10-22 19:03
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 6. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. Avoiding internecine conflict between states continues t… Read More
2020-10-21 19:11
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 5. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton takes up the pen again in the sixth p… Read More
2020-10-20 18:06
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 4. A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. John Jay writes in Paper No. 5 of a letter that Que… Read More
2020-10-19 20:11
And on we go with THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT. Here is that link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers. Did any of you read the opinion… Read More
2020-10-18 19:15
Welcome back to THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT, a read-along challenge with the aim of focusing attention during the lead-up and aftermath to the 2020 U.S. election on something more essentia… Read More
2020-10-17 19:05
It has been ages since I have written here, let alone created a series, I fear that I may be out of practice. Back in 2007, I visited a poem every Friday in a series called An Inflorescence… Read More
2017-03-18 14:35
Kenneth Clark, I think it is safe to say, was the most influential championer of art of his time. Art consultant to King George VI, Director of Britain's National Gallery at just 29 ye… Read More
2016-09-05 12:45
Once known as "little Paris of the Ukraine," the city of Lemberg (also called Lwów, Lvov and Lviv, depending on the moment in history and who was doing the calling) figures prominentl… Read More
2016-08-06 16:06
In the New York art world of the 1970s, art historian, Leo Hertzberg, experiences a powerful painting. He buys it, beginning a friendship with artist Bill Wechsler that is the center o… Read More
2016-07-30 12:07
A. B. Yehoshua is one of just a few Israeli writers, along with Amos Oz and David Grossman, whose novels are regularly translated and make their way to the U.S. I especially enjoyed his Mr… Read More
2016-07-24 11:59
Helen Dunmore's Exposure (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016) is a gently genre-defying novel - a deep and satisfying story of relationships posing as a cold war spy novel. It is as if… Read More
2016-07-17 11:28
Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants (Del Rey, 2016) is the first volume of a planned YA fantasy series. A young girl happens upon a giant hand at the bottom of a hole dug into the earth… Read More
2016-07-16 18:15
The debut novel of Spaniard Juan Gómez Bárcena - The Sky Over Lima (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) - is a mischievous, Escher-like paean to the power of the written word.&nbs&hell…Read More
2016-06-11 14:05
I'm not sure that Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Books, 2004) the bestselling biography and basis for Manuel Lin-Miranda's Broadway musical phenom needs any more hype, but here it… Read More
2016-05-14 15:50
In Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016), three boys set out on an errand one afternoon in Delhi. Only one of them returns. Tushar and Nakul, brothers, are hind… Read More
2016-05-01 12:37
Ethan Canin was already one of my favorite authors for having written For Kings and Planets, and I have frequently recommended his The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air. With A Doubt… Read More
2016-04-17 13:47
Scarred Hearts (Old Street Publishing) by Max Blecher was first published in Romanian in 1937, but did not reach English readers until 2008. It is a novel set in a sanatorium in France, desc… Read More
2016-04-10 14:03
I am a great admirer of Charles Lambert's books, having enjoyed his thriller-like works Any Human Face and The View from the Tower, his debut novel Little Monsters, and With a Zero at its He… Read More
2016-04-04 14:52
Andrea Wulf's biography The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) shares the irrepresable energy of her subject. Wulf convincingly contends that the… Read More
2016-04-03 13:21
Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf: A Portrait (Columbia University Press, 2013), in 2013 is less strictly a biography than it is a literary myth-buster. If you are a fan of all… Read More
2016-03-19 12:54
Ruth had stopped doubting herself the morning she saw Joe do a jigsaw puzzle upside down. For some time, she had been nagged by a feeling that he was not like her other children in som… Read More
2016-03-19 12:54
Ruth had stopped doubting herself the morning she saw Joe do a jigsaw puzzle upside down. For some time, she had been nagged by a feeling that he was not like her other children in som… Read More
2016-01-31 16:23
I am as guilty of it as the next person - reading for comfort. Either we read about worlds with which we are familiar or, and I think worse, to confirm what we believe we already know… Read More
2015-12-27 17:47
Award-winning Canadian novelist Marina Endicott is not widely known in the U.S., but she deserves to be. Her The Little Shadows (Doubleday Canada, 2011) is an entertaining, coming-of-age sag… Read More
2015-12-19 13:06
In Sleeping on Jupiter (2015, Hachette India) Anuradha Roy creates a tale of convergences. An Indian girl, Nomi, is orphaned when her parents are slaughtered in war. She is given refug… Read More
2015-11-28 18:48
A well-to-do Londoner, his marriage and his job as an investment banker in ruins as the economy collapses in 2008, receives a visit. Zafar, whom he knew in college, is of Bangladeshi b… Read More
2015-11-14 15:44
Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life (Doubleday, 2015) has been written about widely and short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. As I started it on the recommendation of my local books… Read More
2015-11-14 15:22
Erasmus Darwin, 18th Century physician, writer, grandfather of the more famous Charles, and one of the eponymous lunar men of Jenny Uglow's book, wrote in the later years of his life:Creduli… Read More
2015-10-25 20:10
In the last several months I read the memoirs of two fascinating, beloved, gay, British-born public figures. One was published recently, the other 15 years ago. One works in one… Read More
2015-10-25 20:10
In the last several months I read the memoirs of two fascinating, beloved, gay, British-born public figures. One was published recently, the other 15 years ago. One works in one… Read More
2015-10-20 10:27
A number of years ago, I switched from writing reading-to-reading impressions, posted as I read, to fully composed reviews after having finished a book. I recently began a new job runn… Read More
2015-10-20 10:27
A number of years ago, I switched from writing reading-to-reading impressions, posted as I read, to fully composed reviews after having finished a book. I recently began a new job runn… Read More
2015-07-30 14:58
This originally appeared here but I now post it below.When I heard that the opening event of Brain Awareness Week this year was on the theme of improvisation and involved arts and science… Read More
2015-06-17 23:18
If you have loved David Grossman's fiction, as I have (see here on To the End of the Land), then you will appreciate this 2007 Paris Review interview with him on Arabs and Israelis, his writ… Read More
2015-05-23 14:51
Three family sagas are the subject of this post. What I like about this form is the intertwining of the characters' narratives with a sense of place and time. When it works well… Read More
2015-05-23 14:51
Three family sagas are the subject of this post. What I like about this form is the intertwining of the characters' narratives with a sense of place and time. When it works well… Read More
2015-05-16 14:33
The life stories of two American Theatre makers monopolized my reading back in January: Elia Kazan: A Life, film and theatre director Kazan's hefty, probing memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988) an… Read More
2015-05-16 14:33
The life stories of two American Theatre makers monopolized my reading back in January: Elia Kazan: A Life, film and theatre director Kazan's hefty, probing memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988) an… Read More
2015-05-15 12:03
Today, as more than 50,000 Russians march to honor Boris Y. Nemtsov, the Putin critic who was assassinated a few days ago, it seems timely to consider some of the art made in the context of… Read More
2015-05-15 12:03
Today, as more than 50,000 Russians march to honor Boris Y. Nemtsov, the Putin critic who was assassinated a few days ago, it seems timely to consider some of the art made in the context of… Read More
2015-05-10 11:53
I talked to curious students about the Brain at BiobBase yesterday and took a really amazing tour through a 3-D brain in a planetarium...no, really. Check out my Brain Awareness Week b… Read More
2015-03-30 15:58
Ian Buruma's Year Zero: A History of 1945 (The Penguin Press, 2013), as is clear from its title, is a history written from the perspective that the legacy of World War II was so uniquely per… Read More
2015-02-06 13:25
When Virginia Woolf collected her essays on the uses of reading (the Elizabethans, Montaigne, Austen, etc) in a volume she called The Common Reader in 1925, she commencedThere is a sentence… Read More
2014-12-23 15:10
I have written enthusiastically of Charles Lambert's novels Little Monsters, Any Human Face, and The View from the Tower. His new creation With a Zero at Its Heart (The Fri… Read More
2014-11-29 15:51
Last weekend, thanks to my friend Sheila, I attended a screening of a The Awful Truth, a 1937 screwball comedy about a married couple who argue, plan to divorce, but just can't seem to leave… Read More
Two Political Dramas In One New York Weekend (Theatre - The Death Of Klinghoffer & Sticks And Bones)
2014-11-24 14:26
Some question the relevance of live theatrical performance in the age of Tivo and live streaming, but you wouldn't if you had seen two productions we attended, one off-Broadway and the other… Read More
Two Political Dramas In One New York Weekend (Theatre - The Death Of Klinghoffer & Sticks And Bones)
2014-11-24 14:26
Some question the relevance of live theatrical performance in the age of Tivo and live streaming, but you wouldn't if you had seen two productions we attended, one off-Broadway and the other… Read More
2014-11-17 18:38
I recently co-created a neuroscience lesson for TED-Ed. It just went live. Check us out! Read More
2014-11-04 13:57
Nowadays, the outcome of every scientific study is expected to be instantly useable by the public. News media demands ready-made dietary and medical advice, politicians and business pe… Read More
2014-10-25 19:23
Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) is a stunner of a novel. The Man Booker committee seems to have thought so too, having awarded it this year… Read More
2014-10-24 12:24
Two middle-aged spies are sitting in an apartment in the Christian Quarter, sipping tea and lying courteously to each other, as evening approaches. They are English - so English that t… Read More
2014-10-19 02:47
If you liked Lev Grossman's first two books in the Magicians Trilogy- The Magicians and The Magician King - you should love the conclusion: The Magician's Land ( Viking, 2014). G… Read More
2014-09-15 11:59
Stuart Rojstaczer is a funny guy. A joke-telling, Jewish, geophysicist/applied mathematician from Milwaukee, Wisoconsin who has written a debut novel about a Jewish meteorologist of hu… Read More
2014-08-24 15:59
The force of the praise for W.G. Sebald from the likes of Susan Sontag, A.S. Byatt, Richard Eder, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Dirda in The New Yorker, The New York Times, TLS and elsewhere… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
James Purdy's voice is dirt plain and when he is telling a gritty story of desperation in depression era Southside Chicago, as he did in Eustace Chisholm and the Works (GMP Publishers Ltd… Read More
Are We Poorer For The Death Of The Letter? (Books - The Leonard Bernstein Letters Ed. Nigel Simeone)
2006-06-07 11:16
I used to write 2, 3, and 4 page letters in complete and descriptive sentences to friends, family, and at least a couple of paragraphs to colleagues. Now I dash off 40 2-line emails a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Book of Jonah by Joshua Max Feldman (Henry Holt and Co., 2014) is a debut novel I received courtesy of the publisher. Billed as a modern day retelling of the biblical Jonah m… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
DID YOU KNOW THAT... The part of the eye with cells that are sensitive to light is called the retina. Only its smallest central part, called the fovea, is sensitive enough to recognize t… Read More
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