Doubt the Experts

I've been reading a biography of Tennessee Williams, mainly to find out more about his relationship with Carson McCullers. Tennessee is ...

I've been reading Shelley: The Pursuit , by Richard Holmes, and, though I thought I'd finish it, I've just decided to give up. T...

Ordinarily I would have found an appropriate book and be commenting on it by now, but there is a hit-and-miss aspect to finding the right bo...

I just watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for the first time in many years and thought I'd write about it today. Th...

Since I'm still having a lot of trouble finding something to read, I thought that I'd write a bit about the world situation, particu...

I've been reading Out of Africa , by Isak Dinesen, which I think is good, but I haven't become excited enough to plow through it. It...

With a fifty percent reduction in the number of household members, things get quite slow here during the holidays. However, I do have close ...

My River runs to thee— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River waits reply— Oh Sea—look graciously— I'll fetch thee Brooks From spotted nook...

Having read some of de Beauvoir's fiction and memoirs, I had a few questions about her life, and this biography, by Toril Moi, was the b...

I've decided to continue reading a biography of Simone de Beauvoir that I recently started, even though I don't think that it will p...

I did end up reading From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language , by Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, but overall found it too acade...

All of a sudden, we seem to be having a normal winter again. This is probably because there is currently a La Niña effect, making the temper...

Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar Unless thou know'st the Tune Or every Bird will point at thee Because a Bard too soon— —Emily Di...

Because I'm tired of biographies at the moment, I thought that I would instead write about how I see the current malaise that seems to b...

I had planned to begin commenting by now on a biography of Gustave Flaubert that I've been reading, but I just got sick of it and gave u...

I've sort of been waiting for the election season to end. But now it looks as if we're going to be hearing about politics nonstop fo...

I came across  this article , by Luke Glowacki, in 3 Quarks Daily . It is an unusually academic article for them to post, but I read it with...

I've started on a longer biography but haven't made much progress in it so far. There are more distractions than usual this year, an...

The fall colors are intensifying now, and it looks as if they may almost be peaking in the mountains. I think this is the best time of year ...

We do not know the time we lose— The awful moment is And takes its fundamental place Among the certainties— A firm appearance still inflates...

I haven't been doing much of anything for the last few days or had much to say. I do have another book to read but haven't started i...

This 2023 biography of George Eliot, by Clare Carlisle, was recommended to me by a reader. Reading it was like a walk down memory lane, beca...

I've been reading some new and old poetry for the last few days but haven't found anything that I like. The new poetry generally see...

This essay, by Ian Tattersall, from Rethinking Human Evolution , is probably the last I'll discuss from the book. Like the other essays,...