Every time I read the news, I hear a faint, French-accented cry: To the barricades!
Then I wonder what counsel Victor Hugo would give us.
The burning accusations in Les Misérables, his most famous and wildly popular work,drew so much attention that the
Irrational ramblings and outbursts need not get in the way of love.
Look at the holes in English vocabulary, and you realize what our culture lacks.
How a seedling can hear the rain fall, and how the sound soothes away our stress.
Who knew reading and gardening had such overlap?
“Coffee, Brown”
Our morning habits,
For Each of us,
A pot brews
Poured over,
Estranged
~a contribution by Andy, in the comments section
In his New York Times column, Judge John Hodgman fielded an…
The following sentence just begs for snorts of derision, and I can imagine Stanley Tucci’s character rolling his eyes. But The Devil Wears Prada 2 parallels to the Midwestern magazine world.
Sure, our versions are inevitably smaller scale and far less sophisticated, less privy to talent, couture, exposure.…
A few weeks ago, the Sunday New York Times crossword was printed with an error. Mistakes had been made before, but in eighty-four years of cruciform puzzles, this was the first all-out disaster. The error meant that the clues and squares did not line up; the puzzle could not…
Chuck away all the awards and trophies? Absolutely.
“Ach! Don’t do that!” The dog dropped his paw, dismayed by my sharp tone. For years he has swiped my arm to get my attention, wangle a treat, stop me from overwork. Now—seemingly overnight, right after my sixty-fifth birthday—my skin has thinned to tissue paper, and his toenails cause…