Every evening before her sons’ bedtime, my mother read to us. She also read to us while nursing my youngest brother of the moment. Even after I was…
But for its stellar cast and director, ‘Night Train to Munich’ (1940) would be just another ill-plotted British flag-waver with a couple of very good bits. The…
A new favorite writer offers a respite from our steamy weather: Now it is snowing, one of the terrific storms that first mute and then obliterate the…
For 40 years, I’ve seen Enemies of Promise cited, quoted and (often, but not always) admired. I have finally bought a copy. Cyril Connolly wrote this memoir of growing…
Some presidents produce wonderful anecdotes. For a supposedly dour, laconic man, Calvin Coolidge left us with some very funny stories and even funnier pictures — ever see the one…
How Dickensian was your boarding school? That this question, hotly debated between ages 13 and 18, persists in my peers’ seventh decade says much about their schools’ capacity…
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