A new essay from your resident contrarian.

In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...

Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...

Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...

I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...