Crews on Dennis Miller
Want to know what it’s like to be in a room with Harry Crews? Watch his old Dennis Miller spot and multiply by 100. (Thanks, Dana.)
Want to know what it’s like to be in a room with Harry Crews? Watch his old Dennis Miller spot and multiply by 100. (Thanks, Dana.)
The OUP posts a crossword puzzle featuring new words from the 6th edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
A painstakingly inclusive new collection of Henry James’ letters serves as a jumping-off point for Edmund V. White’s consideration, in the current New York Review of Books, of the “jagged, capricious education” that the James family patriarch ensured for both Henry and his brother William. After becoming a Swedenborgian, the elder James dragged his sons from school to school across . . .
Possession & Middlemarch: “great novels to read when you’re snarled, low and the sleeves of your cardigan are stuffed with Kleenex.”