… Gorgias: Plato’s Guide to Online Discussions ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… He Was Laughed Out of Academia for This Take About Technology. Turns Out He Was Right. Marshall McLuhan was warning us about the internet ...

… What’s Not to Like? On similes, good and bad (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… James Hitchcock and the Continuing Battles over Vatican II (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Bernadette Mayer —=Wind Force

… Quotes To Inspire You

… insiring Quotes

… Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97 (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Farid Matuk — Crease

… Now I’ve left Britain, here’s what you look like Lionel used to review for me when I was The Inquirer's book editor. She's as br...

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Horace for the Ages ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… G. E. M. Anscombe - On Wittgenstein (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Cabahug

… Morris, the Movie Star Alligator Who Appeared in ‘Happy Gilmore,’ Dies of Old Age

… Denise Levertov —,Sound of the Axe

… Poetry and Power

… Bring Back Quiet Libraries (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… UNFORGETTABLE FIRE (Hat tip, Dave Lull) Ours is “an age in which religious belief seems to be at once in steep decline and surging out of...

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Alberto Caeiro 93

… Jane Greer May 25, 1953 — July 22, 2025 Obituary (Hatip, Dave lull.)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… A Beatnik Tourist in Ayahuasca Country ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Inspiring Quotes

… Alberto Caeiro — 68

… The Alto Knights - Why Did The De Niro Mob Movie Bomb?

… 'Reeninald Bulan'

… Who Was Hesiod?

… She’s Gone, She Was Here and Then Gone (Hat tip, Dave Lull}

… Butterflies: Their Fascinating Lives and How to Protect Them ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Another newfangled device doomed to become a failure

… Patricio Ferrari —=Alberto

… Quotes To Inspire You

… My Daughter Walks in the Garden (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Austerity —,by Janet Loxley Lewis (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Re-establishing the deserted (lost”) colony

… Álvaro de Campos — Three Sonnets

… ISI Remembers Edwin J. Feulner I knew Ed, from back when I worked for ISI. Great guy.

… I remember what I watched on television on July 20, 1969

… Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Ricardo Reis —= Ode 76

… Spy pleads guilty in Philadelphia

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Happiness

… One man's struggle with his mortality. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… The violets bear them away by William Loga n ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… ‘A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland’: A Londoner Out of His Element (Hat tipp, tip, Dave Lull)

… Mail gets to POTUS via an unusual delivery service

… Barbara Guest — East of Omsk

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Does this finally solve the mystery of the lost colony?

… What is the point of state-sponsored mediocrity in the arts? (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Peacock

… Connie Francis "Where The Boys Are" on The Ed Sullivan Show

  It's an interesting experience to read a novel seemingly at random. This was the case recently when taking up Mihail Sebastian's F...

… An Organized Retail Theft Story

… Anne Sexton — The Poet of Ignorance

… Is Bernini’s Baroque Masterpiece the Most Controversial Religious Artwork of All Time?

… Philadelphia’s newest and smallest art museum is ready for its close up ( Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Updike is referenced in a book of Mark Twain poems (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Ann Darr — Everything in the Kitchen Sink

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Lionel Shriver: The left has grown adept at gaslighting (Hat tip, Dave Lull) lionel used to review for me when I was the book editor of ...

… The Erie Canal at 200 (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Camille Dungy Poem Revised in a Twelfth-Floor Hotel Room After Seeing a Man in the Building Across the Street Holding What Appeared to b...

… Quotes To Inspire You

… nspiring quotes.

… Gary Snyder — Oysters

… Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… The Complicated Brilliance of John Updike: A Conversation with Biljana Dojčinović (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Reading Two Thomases (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… New Yorker previews upcoming John Updike Selected Letters volume (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Thinking about the end…

… Can Americans Love Poetry Again? ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… My Crime Fiction: 'Mouth'

… Morgan Parker — The High Priestess of Soul’s Sunday Morning Visit to the Wall of Respect

… Quotes To Inspire You

… THE PARIS REVIEW Weekly

… The Weekly Dish.

… The Huble Essatist. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… This was as good as it was ever going to get

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Tom Wolfe’s Sociology of the Weird (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) From high school on, I have identified with the Beats. I knew some Hippies, of ...

… Quotes To Inspire You

… Political Theater Makes Bad Drama (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… Glory be to God for dappled things —

… UP AND AWAY PART III

… Mourning the loss of Fanny Howe.

… The Architecture of Arrogance (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… On July 7, 1755, in southwestern Pennsylvania

… In Larry Krasner's 'Safer, Freer' Philadelphia, 52 shot in one weekend; six dead

… I’m sure he does rise up some days

… Quotes To Inspire You

… THE WRITING OF TAKE 5: One novelist's big book obsession (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)