There are two trees in the living room — the Christmas tree and the cat tree. My wife plucks Archie, perched like a partridge, from the latter and snuggles with...
Age and weather took the golden fleece from the trees; the scarlet tinsel is scattered. The arboreal vesture which had burst into flaming yellow and orange a few weeks ago...
The late Christopher Tolkien, in the foreword to The Silmarillion, says of his father’s work: “In his later writing mythology and poetry sank down behind his theological and philosophical preoccupations.”...
We’ve all seen deepfakes at this point. Whether it’s the feverish re-envisioning of The Lord of the Rings as it might have been (as directed by Wes Anderson) or Joe...
Henry David Thoreau was a man who left his mark. While the American writer’s work often failed to perform well with retail sellers when first published, his literary corpus has...
To date, this presidential election’s spotlights have included an initial debate in which one party’s candidate fumbled through the English language on a quest to best his opponent. That quest...
