The Limits of Biography
The Limits on Writing a Biography [Authors Q & A with Jonathan Eig] New York Times Book Review, May 28, 2023 How cognizant did you need to be of your own perspective, as a white man, in approaching a figure like…
Mayan Superhighways
Ever since the plague descended on the manse in the Far Reaches of Fairfax [as well as the rest of the globe], I've noticed great changes in patterns of travel, even now more local during the week during most waking…
Outsize Battles in Obscure Places: Iwo-Jima –Gettysburg — Bakhmut
"(T)he end of the battle no matter the stakes or victor is always the same: unfathomable loss, and a reckoning of what comes next." Thomas Gibbons-Neff -- New York Times, May 23, 2023 Why Bakhmut? It’s a Question Older Than…
Say It Ain’t So, Oscar!
This an outrage!!!!! And to tamper with the recipe. I predict a corporate disaster on the scale of the "New Coke." Are they crazy??? The legendary Frank Popp, coach of the mighty Cardinals in the Brainerd Beverly Little League, is…
Saving Yosemite: Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation
My interview with author Dean King on Washington Independent Review of Books website. An Interview with Dean King | Washington Independent Review of Books
Taking Shakespeare Way Too Seriously; PTL It Wasn’t ‘Titus Andronicus’
Forrest as Othello You could say, "only in New York, but I won't. The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
