notes for a new school

A much more professional podcast featuring Pullman himself is up on Backlisted . The topic is not his own work, but Burton's Anatomy o...

It's tough to keep track of the news, for lots of reasons; however, the passing of Toni Morrison bears noting here, among all the others...

Having read or re-read most of Plato for a summer reading project, I also wanted to make some time to revisit Jacob Klein's Commentary o...

Though much lesser known than Tolkien, the importance of Owen Barfield's writing is powerfully attested to by Verlyn Flieger in her Spli...

Alison Gopnik's The Carpenter and the Gardener (reviewed here ) offers a number of insights on play and reading which would be worth a c...

last straws in the wind There are at least three. It remains to be seen if they'll break this camel's back. Last straw the fi...

I started listening to the Ezra Klein show on someone's recommendation for the episode(s) with Rebecca Traister. My favorite part is the...