The docter is in … the garret
Dennis Johnson
“A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson,” a play about Samuel Johnson being staged in London in the actual garret where he compiled his famous dictionary, receives a big thumbs… Read more »
“A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson,” a play about Samuel Johnson being staged in London in the actual garret where he compiled his famous dictionary, receives a big thumbs… Read more »
“Why don’t we have a museum that honors the great writing and the great writers in America?” That’s the question posed by Malcolm O’Hagan, a retired president and chief executive… Read more »
Last week, the Pentagon’s top lawyer told a packed auditorium that Dr. Martin Luther King, if alive today, would support American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: “I believe that if… Read more »
Today is the day we remember and celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. While it’s important to remember the man and his achievements directly, for the purposes of this… Read more »
Over in Wired’s Danger Room they recently published a humorous piece on the increasing number of US Generals that are using Twitter. There are two common reactions to this concept.… Read more »
In a review for the Washington Post, Michael Dirda notes that the newly translated Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy “provides a harrowing portrait of a marriage … not to mention a… 4 / Read more »
No less than 1,000 ancient Greek texts will be made available online by the British Library, with another 250 coming by 2012. Ranging from seminal editions of Aesop’s fables to… Read more »
As the Writers Almanac points out in this post, “On this day in 1932 James Joyce wrote to Random House’s Bennett Cerf a famous letter detailing the tribulations of getting… Read more »
“It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among… Read more »
Henry Holt announced Monday that “it will correct all future editions of the Last Train from Hiroshima” by Charles Pellgrino after it was discovered that one of Pellegrino’s key sources… 2 / Read more »