Nick Owchar

Nick Owchar is executive director of advancement communications at Claremont Graduate University; he blogs regularly at Call of the Siren.

Still at the Top of His Game: On Nicholas Delbanco’s “Why Writing Matters”

Nick Owchar examines Nicholas Delbanco’s 2020 book “Why Writing Matters” in the context of the author’s career....

LITERARY CRITICISM

The Bookseller as Humanist: A Conversation with Ross King

Nick Owchar talks with Ross King on his book about the Italian bookseller who spurred the Renaissance....

HISTORY

Making Room for Santa in Tolkien’s Legendarium

A dragon’s horde of new holiday editions of J. R. R. Tolkien....

The Final Treasure from the Tolkien Hoard

Staying Nimble with a Diet of Jokes and a Pinch of Stephen Hawking: A Conversation with Leonard Mlodinow

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Man of Little Consequence

AROUND THE WORLD

NOIR

Knowing Things

NOIR

Dark and Dreary … and Real

NONFICTION

Decline and Fall

POLITICS

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

POLITICS

HISTORY