Book/Film/Record Review
After the Book Sale: Mapping Franz Kafka, Finding Weldon Kees
The Human Story: Prokofiev, Chekhov, War, and a World of Books
Between the Oscars and Bryn Mawr: Casting a Book Sale Treasure
Looking for Christopher Marlowe
Matters of Life, Love, and Death with Keats, Dickinson, and Wardell Gray
On Lincoln’s Birthday: Lights and Shadows, Sandburg, Shakespeare, and Black History
Born 111 Years Ago Today, William Burroughs Knocks on Our Door
School Days and Shootings in McKinley and Dylan’s America
On David Lynch: “Only When It Is Dark Enough, Can You See the Stars”
Dylan’s Idiot Wind: Still Blowing, From the Fires of L.A. to the Capitol
Launching the New Year With “The Great Gatsby” and “The Catcher in the Rye”
New Year’s Eve 2024: Beat Muse Joan Adams Vollmer Crashes the Party
Scott Fitzgerald and Jimmy Stewart Give a Princeton Touch to Christmas 2024
A Game of “Authors” with Jane Austen and Mark Twain
A Week of Wonders: Emily Dickinson, Hector Berlioz, and John Lennon
Centenary Musings On Franz Kafka (1924-2024)
Let Us Now Praise James Agee on His 115th Birthday
On the Brilliance of “My Brilliant Friend”
Elon Musk and the Ancient Mariner
Mixing It Up with Phil Lesh and Ezra Pound on The Day After
On Ezra Pound’s Birthday: Life and Contacts
Pity, Terror, and Tragedy Within and Without James Joyce’s “Portrait”
