
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"





“The Ballad of Abel Kiviat: Jews and Sports”
December 6th, 2012
“Trading Faith for Wonder: On Judaism's Literary Legacy”
January 21st, 2013

“The Third Man: Joseph Anton’s Split Perspective”
November 4th, 2012
“'The candles will blow themselves out': The Richard Brautigan Saga”
August 30th, 2012

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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More