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Off the Blocks goes to Paris
La Gioconda When my wife and I took the Orient Express from Stuttgart to Paris in January, 1974 it was an adventure. I have certain distinct memories: a small glass-covered picture in the Louvre, a...
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Montaigne: The First Ascent
A book wonderful in every way 1998 was my Montaigne year and I read all of him, including his Travel Journal and letters. I began, by chance, reading “On Thumbs” and immediately jumped to the complete...
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On Getting Beat to the Punch
The offending article It is simultaneously annoying and gratifying when you see in print an idea you’ve had yourself. This was my reaction in seeing, in Saturday’s NY Times (12-18-10) the following...
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The Swerve
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt is a book about a book and oh what a book it is: De Rerum Natura by Lucretius. Have I lost you? Latin-English De Rerum Natura De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things,...
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On Re-reading “The Rings of Saturn” by Sebald
When I heard the news in December of 2001 that W.G. Sebald had died at 57 of a car crash I was first stunned, then heart-sick. We had lost a completely original writer and one with a weight and...
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Monsieur Montaigne, a walk?
For me, Montaigne is the greatest of writers, the one I read most often, the one I most would like to have dinner with, the one whose wisdom I seek never to be disappointed and the one I most consider...
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