Newsletter Hot Takes on Cold English When winter storms bring the city to a halt, I apparently think of poetry, which I’m kind of surprised to learn about myself. In 2021, when ice encapsulated every twig and leaf of every tree and shrub and bent them to the ground, I thought of Robert Frost’s
Newsletter 2023 Reading Review Let's start this reading review with the stat that most people use: I read 52 books this year. A tidy average of one a week. Several of those were for school; a couple of them were for a class I ended up not taking. Nearly a dozen of
Newsletter Readings for October 22, 2023 I’m not entirely sure what to think of this prickly pair of interviews, but it was striking to read the New York Times interview with the filmmaker Errol Morris on Sunday and the Literary Hub interview with the author Benjamin Labatut on Monday. Both are reluctant interviewees: Morris gets
Newsletter Miraculous Nuns of the 7th and 21st Centuries A rare moment when an Old English story is relevant
Newsletter Readings for April 10, 2023 Thoughts on the internet and electronics and one book recommendation
