Year: 2004

Having just received my beautiful copy in the mail today, I thought I might share with you some definitions from Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary...

Interesting dig at modern historians in the latest issue of National Review [subscription required]. In a review of William F. Buckley’s upcoming The Fall...

As a native Michigander (despite living in Ohio currently) I have always been interested in stories centered in that fine state (Elmore Leonard’s Mr. Para...

Growing up in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century were two contented children from whose household all toys and dolls had been banned. It had be...

Via Romenesko by way of Maud, we learn that Sam Tanenhaus has been named editor of the New York Times Book Review. I am not the high brow literary type, but it ...

This Guardian article on Stephen Unwin has brought the subject of his book, The Probability of God : A Simple Calculation That Proves the Ultimate Truth, out in...