
“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"




“A Touch of Grey Matter: On “Reading the Grateful Dead””
March 15th, 2013




“Enough and More Than Enough: On Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach””
December 5th, 2012
“The Cosmographer of The Self: On Sir Thomas Browne”
October 2nd, 2012

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