Essays

Secure in his widowerhood and faithful to the memory of Martha Wayles, not two years dead, Thomas Jefferson had set sail for France in the summer of 1784 as Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Louis XVI. It may have been that this...

A wise saying is probably the earliest form of a popular story, taking place as an observed experience many times before it is shaped as an incident.

For modern blasphemy is merely a department of bad form: and just as, in countries which still possess a Crown, people are usually (and quite rightly) shocked by any public impertinence concerning any member of their Royal Family, they are...

Releasing an e-book as a stand alone application is a lousy new trend. It’s bad for authors, it’s bad for publishers, and it’s bad for customers.

A Vietnamese American Army Captain’s view of the war in Iraq.

The internet is filled with gossip, hucksterism, schlock, back-biting, and valueless aggregation about the publishing industry. Poets & Writers magazine is a diamond in the junk.