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There were evenings in Barrow Street, while I played the violin part in Bach's B-minor to Isaac's flute, when his musical sense of style would make me gasp. It was [...]

Steve Coil has managed to find time to write ambitious pieces while serving as the Washington Post's managing editor. Now he's working on a book about U.S. intelligence and Osama [...]

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, good ol' boys and girls. I want to start my talk tonight by introducing you to Miss Daisy. Chances are, you already know her. She [...]

It's easy to arrive at the subject of Carey McWilliams and enter into a pure love-fest, ending with a blanket endorsement. (1) Though his legacy, especially to historians of the [...]

Born in Harlem in 1928, Piri Thomas was a child of the Depression. His mother was a light-skinned Cuban; his father a Puerto Rican whose darker complexion Thomas alone of [...]

AMONG THE ARABS familiar with the literature and culture of the West, there have been very few as deeply and as widely knowledgeable about them as was Jabra Ibrahim Jabra [...]

William Faulkner's first day on European soil is the stuff of legend. He and his artist friend William Spratling sailed from New Orleans on the cargo West Ivis and arrived [...]

In his introduction to Byron and Greek Love, Louis Crompton identifies a 'central issue confronting gay studies'--'the friendship problem': If a novel, poem, or essay describes or expresses ardent feelings [...]

Let me begin by reading to you an unpublished letter that Joseph Conrad wrote in the postwar years. One of the things I plan to do here is to reveal [...]

The first time I met William Eastlake he was both appalled and amused to hear that I had been drawn to his work by seeing the film of Castle Keep, [...]

That Sunday in 1984, I had just set myself up in my study to write an article when the telephone rang. I did something that even then I never did: [...]

They met in 1924 in Nashville: Robert Penn Warren was nineteen; Cleanth Brooks, a freshman, was almost eighteen. For sixty-five years their friendship grew as they collaborated on five textbooks [...]

Part One ALL the twenty-first century instruments agree that in this cybernetic age that quaint Victorian artefact, that wily old literary bird, the Man of Letters, has virtually joined the [...]

If you should ask, why me on Sholem Aleichem, I have an answer. Every Jew has a share in Sholem Aleichem; but let me tell you why it should be [...]

Early on Christmas morning I stood with hundreds of people on a roadside in Abalak, a town in southern central Niger, West Africa, on the edge of the Sahara. I [...]

Shortly after Thomas Aquinas died, on March 7, 1274, miracles began to occur near his body. The monks of the Cistercian abbey at Fossanova, where Thomas was buried, feared that [...]

Dovid Bergelson (1884-1952) is widely recognized as perhaps the finest prose stylist in Yiddish literature, yet the major part of his work remains relatively unknown to an English readership. First, [...]

No German writer has the prestige of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as the true leader and exemplar of German Enlightenment and champion of tolerance, particularly towards Jews. He is also admired [...]

Terrence Des Pres haunts me, and his presence arrives each time with startling power. When I see his dust-jacket photograph - his eyes are brave and frightened at once, his [...]

PARKER J. PALMER is a writer and teacher best known for his books The Company of Strangers, To Know As We Are Known and The Active Life. A senior associate [...]