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“I was as surprised as I was pleased”: Rampersad receives National Humanities...
“I was as surprised as I was pleased,” said Arnold Rampersad, who received the National Humanities Medal yesterday. He didn’t stay in Washington long — he headed back to his native Trinidad, where...
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Jacques Barzun: “I am a liberal, a conservative, and a socialist”
He avoided the political fray. (Photo: Harper Collins) Jacques Barzun died two weeks ago, on October 25, at age 104. I’m only starting to think about it. The New York Times described him as “the...
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More on bad sex: “Eros calls for something better.”
John Adams over at The Gentle Rereader offered such an elegant coda to our recent post on the Literary Review‘s bad sex award (we wrote about it here and here) that we couldn’t leave it alone in the...
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