This week is Passover, beginning this evening and ending next Sunday. This week is also Holy Week, in the Christian… Read more Passover/Holy Week
Category: Writing (All)
For the Beauty
As one of the three transcendentals: the good, the true, and the beautiful, beauty is an essential quality of being.… Read more For the Beauty
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino I don’t remember how I discovered Italo Calvino. Someone must have recommended him to me.… Read more Invisible Cities
Watermark
Watermark by Joseph Brodsky I finished I Married a Communist on a plane ride to North Carolina to visit my… Read more Watermark
I Married a Communist
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth When I finished reading American Pastoral a few months ago, I had read… Read more I Married a Communist
Keeping it Real
Although religion explores realms not available to empirical study, speaks in myths and parables, and, for some, includes the supernatural,… Read more Keeping it Real