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I’m writing this on Tuesday, April 21—Charlotte Brontë’s birthday. Next year is her bicentennial, but we might as well celebrate 199, too. These days Jane
Possibly the best birthday present I’ve ever received was a room. (I share a birthday with Virginia Woolf, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it
I wanted to take a moment before the blog proper today to direct your attention to this month’s issue of our host publication, Perspectives, and its
Maybe it’s this long winter intersecting with Lent. Maybe it’s just the personal season I’m in. Or maybe it’s the combination of bitter cold and lingering
I’ve been laid low by the flu. So today I commend to you two things that you may have missed–and should take a moment to
Part I: Holberg In all the years of our long friendship, there was never a week that went by when Dale Brown and I did
I very recently had a birthday, and as I move more and more solidly into middle age (despite my internal protestation that I can still—even
At least one corner of the internet (so it must be true!) proclaimed yesterday, January 13th, National Poetry at Work Day. [NB: This is not
In response to the deadly attack at the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week, this image has been circulating
