Recently [March 2011, –ed.], the literary cultural organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released a report on women in magazine publishing, focusing particularly on book reviews. The results of their…
For years I had wanted to visit the house where Herman Melville finished writing Moby-Dick. I knew it was in the Berkshires, and on a visit this summer to the area,…
The Irish poet W.B. Yeats, in one of his more revolutionary moods, is purported to have exclaimed, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a…