…  Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize .

…  Reimagining Harper Lee’s Lost True Crime Novel: An Interview with Casey Cep . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Cep’s debut,  Furious Hours: Murder,...

…  Austrians told to stop French kissing COWS after bizarre challenge sweeps social media sparking fears of attacks by 'protective' ...

…  Herman Wouk, the legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream | The Times of Israel . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I must be out and about today. I have much to do.Will resume blogging when I can.

…  Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks | by Simon Callow | The New York Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In the essay “Telling,” he desc...

…  Poetry Foundation Announces 2019 Pegasus Awards Winners, Marilyn Nelson Awarded Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, R...

…  Top Shots: The Week's Best Photojournalism . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Author William Boyd wows Foundation supporters at Evelyn Waugh Lecture | Lancing College | Independent Senior School & Sixth Form | W...

…   RT’s Marginalia: 1939 Reading List for 2019 .

…   Cynthia L. Haven | Full Stop . Cynthia L. Haven, a 2018/19 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, was kind enough to ans...

…  Language Log — "Demoralised" = "without morals"?  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Every thought vibrates through the universe. — Dorothy Richardson , born on this date in 1873

…  Stefan Zweig, European Man by Joseph Epstein | Articles | First Things . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The political victory of Adolf Hitler in ...

…  Warren Phillips Built a Powerhouse of News - WSJ . I knew Warren Phillips. It is a privilege I am grateful for. They don’t make them l...

…  Matt Roth’s “mirrored acrostic Nabokovian sonnet.”   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes – Women in the World .

…  RT’s Marginalia: Blood Alone: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery by James R. Benn (Soho, 2008) .

…   Giving Up Darwin . (Hat tip, Dave Lull) Do  the numbers balance out? Is Neo-Darwinian evolution plausible after all? Axe reasoned as fo...

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is. — James Agee , who died on this date in 1955

…  Me and My Shadow – Indicative Mood . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I don’t know much about the various schools of psychoanalysis and have tended...

… This New Translation of a Russian Epic Restores What Censors Stole - The Millions . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The idea that  Stalingrad  must...

… listen in;  Home - The Thing About France . “Nothing teaches you how American you are more than moving to another country.”

…  Alexander Pushkin Dies in a Duel by Charles Rammelkamp . …   2 Poems by Byron Beynon . …  2 Poems by J.C. Todd . …   Illusion (Afte...

…  Atomic Theory | Literary Imagination | Oxford Academic . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Auberon Waugh on the death of John Betjema n. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Stream by Andrew Frisardi | Articles | First Things . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Paul Davis On Crime: RIP Tim Conway, Ensign Parker On 'McHale's Navy' .

…  RT’s WW2 Marginalia (1939-45): Women in the Army and gasoline rationing — 15 May .

…  Episode 320 – Seth – The Virtual Memories Show . “The drawing of the comic is where everything is discovered.”

… Harvard’s Disgrace . Capitulating to the noisy complaints of a small number of undergraduates, and a sit-in protest at the dining hall, ...

… Is Poverty Necessary? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) This seems to me to be all over the place and to arrive nowhere in particular. I don't ...

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to dif...

…  Harvard's Bad Call on Ronald Sullivan - The Atlantic . The vital work of criminal defense has managed to endure … thanks to a core o...

…  Did Marcus Aurelius feel too little – or too much? Hmmmm… | The Book Haven . When I first read the Meditations  many years ago, it struc...

…   The Narcissism of Contemporary Poetry | The Walrus . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Much of contemporary poetry has become something of an ass...

…  Actress Doris Day dies at 97 .

…  Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Times Review Of Admiral McRaven's 'Sea Stories: My Life In Special Operations' .

…  RT’s WW2 Marginalia (1939-45): Rotterdam Blitz — 14 May 1940 . I was once in conversation with someone who was a child in Holland during...

…  Pushing Back Against Marilynne Robinson's Theology | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) For Robi...

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Daniélou , born ...

…  Anecdotal Evidence: 'Great Readers Who Did Not Go On to Write' .

…  Was Shakespeare a woman? | Spectator USA . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ‘Everything in here was rigorously fact-checked by  The Atlantic ,’ W...

…   Doris Day: The actor and singer who symbolised wholesome America in the Fifties and Sixties | The Independent . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ...

…  The Life and Death of a Line: Saul Steinberg’s “The Labyrinth” - Los Angeles Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The best way to re...

I have to be out for a few hours. Blogging should resume sometime this afternoon.

…  Why books don’t work | Andy Matuschak . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and re...

…   RT’s WW2 Marginalia (1939-45): Winston Churchill — Blood, toil, tears, and sweat . Fortunately, there were some serious people around t...

…  The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale: Carey Cranston on the American Writers Museum in Chicago . Carey Cranston  took on the role of Pr...

…   Clair Wills reviews ‘The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien’ edited by Maebh Long — LRB 4 April 2019 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) There are ...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. — Daphne du Maurier , born on this date in 1907

Since I was recently taken to task for seeming to slight the notion of global warming, I thought I’d link to a piece I wrote some years ago ...

…  Why You Should Keep Submitting After a Rejection Letter | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog .

…  ‘Chasing Cosby’ by Nicole Weisensee Egan: The lonely work of reporting on the downfall of a pop-culture icon . …   ‘Archive of Alternat...

… Eileen Myles, The Art of Poetry No. 9 9 . I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interes...

…  Nigeness: Joad's Pianola .

…  Celtic Christianity and nature – Mark Vernon .

…  Werner Herzog’s short talk about a long walk from Munich to Paris | The Book Haven .

…  People Who Will Be Interested in My Book | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog .

…  The Dubia Were Answered - The Catholic Thing . Whatever the reason, the world watched, read, and missed the answers to the  dubia  propo...

… Risk Pool .

…  Travel and Love: The Poetry of Catharine Savage Brosman  . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   "Alcoholic" by Judson Jerome . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Laudator Temporis Acti: Pur Remenbrer des Ancessurs .

…  RT’s WW2 Marginalia (1939-45): Germany sends bombers to Iraq .

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with...

… Anecdotal Evidence: 'Among the Deepening Shades' . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Zealotry of Guerin: The Moon Calf (Franz Sedlacek), Sonnet #456 .

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia : Blogging Note — Homefront USA, 1943 .

…  On the Composting of Thee and Me | George Weigel | First Things . In the biblical view of things, men and women, created in God’s image ...

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours. — William Dean Howells , who died on this date in 1920

…  Simon Armitage is unveiled as the UK’s new Poet Laureate . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  The Just Third Way: Evelyn Waugh on Vatican II . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)  In Waugh’s opinion (which turned out to be prophetic), changes i...

…  Historical Ignorance Reigns Over Notre Dame’s Columbus Ban - Crisis Magazine . …  when the university leadership was confronted by the c...

…  May snowstorm breaks 117-year-old record in Minnesota . Maybe more people should pay attention to Valentina Zharkova: Hmm .

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia : When I am gone what will you do? I ran into Shel Silverstein twice (he was easily recognizable), once when...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Times Review of 'Mafia Spies: The Inside Story Of The CIA, Gangsters, JFK, And Castro' .

This is busy day for me. I have to out right now. Hope to be back to blog some before I go out again this afternoon.

…   Laudator Temporis Acti: Fifteen Years . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia : German forces invade the Lowlands of Western Europe .

…  Entitled Opinions: Philosophy Outside Academia | Blog of the APA . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) “I believe in it,” Harrison said. “And the reas...

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally. — Karl Barth , born on this date in 1886

…  Our heroes — Joanne Jacobs .

…  Disney’s New Film ’Tolkien' Erases the Christian Faith and the Western Literary Tradition From the Story of the Author of 'The Lo...

…  On Poetry: Poem's roots go deep for tree-hugger | Northern Living | record-eagle.com . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) It still saddens me th...

…  ' Even Now, I Don't Want to Admit That Xiaobo is Gone' . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Asked about how she feels living in a state ...

…  The 'Toy Orphanage' Of Ukraine . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

… Top Shots: The Week's Best Photojournalism . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Nigeness: Gibbon, Not .

…   'Moscow Zoo' and Other Poetry by A.M. Juster | Society of Classical Poets . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Anecdotal Evidence: 'A General Effect of Pleasing Impression' . It’s not just the subject matter that is tiresome in so many att...

…  RT’s Reviews and Marginalia : Enigma and other ciphers .

…   'An Orientation' by Maryann Corbett . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Must-Read Poetry: May 2019 - The Millions . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) Here are six notable books of poetry publishing in May.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café. — José Ortega y Gasset , born on ...

…  Late season winter storm buries parts of Italy . It may have been a wintry storm, but I am sure winter ended in Tuscany around the same ...

…  New Research Confirms We Got Cholesterol All Wrong – Reason.com . The study also reports that "heart attack patients were shown to...

…  Yet more praise for Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard: “gorgeously written … a scintillating and atmospheric read.” | The Book H...

…  Elegy Season | Commonweal Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  Possessed by Memory  really is a kind of valediction. In the first sentenc...