Month: April 2023

Each Spring, we send you the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, […]

People will not wait to be introduced and will even begin to speak with strangers as they stand in a line, sit […]

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb […]

460 killed, 2600 wounded, 16 executions. The proclamation was read by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office in Dublin on Sackville […]

More precisely, it’s in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, on the coast, and jutting out into the North Sea. Due east: The Netherlands, […]

I miss growing up in Indian Hill, Ohio. A community that protected its own. If I were driving around at 17 and […]

No one bears more responsibility for the current stark cultural and political divides in America and Europe than our once-respected mainstream and […]

Belle Starr: Non-Hollywood/non-Wanker version, circa 1885.

Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1320) by Pietro Lorenzetti.

I’ve mentioned the small but elegant Cummer Art Museum and Gardens here sporadically, usually in connection with a particularly famous piece in […]