For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at American University Day: Thursday afternoons, 1:45 to 3:15 pm online June 6 – 27 4 sessions On-line (location of building: 4801 Massach...
The photo used on the 1970s printing of Ross Poldark (the decade in which the first TV serial was aired) The 1970s Demelza cover photo (novel first published 1946) Dear readers and friends, I spe...
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Trollope’s Lady Anna (from a cover for facsimile print-out) Donald Pleasence as Mr Harding playing his violin in the 1983 BBC Barchester Chronicles) “It is useless to suppose that social dist...
Dear friends and reader, Here’s why I’ve not posted for weeks: I wrote this to a literary women, Anne Boyf Rioux, in answer to something she wrote to me on her substack newsletter: I had had ...
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Phiz (Hablot Browne), “Little Dorrit’s Party” — the chapter where we accompany Amy Dorrit and Maggie who walk, sit, and sleep on the streets all night long … I pretend to-night that I a...
A photograph of the snowy Yorkshire Dales (light cover of snow), 2023 (from All Creatures Great & Small) Dear friends and readers, Over the past few years I’ve made a habit of writing Christmas...
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Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) and Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw): he has gotten for her an alphabet book Dear friends and readers, As is so common with me, I’m a few years late on this recommen...
Sandra Huller as Sandra Voyter Friends and readers, I rush to write this brief review lest Anatomy of a Fall, an independent film leave the theaters before my reader can find time to see it. I wa...
Friends and readers, A. S. Byatt or Antonia Susan Drabble Duffy (1936-2023) died yesterday, and I want to remember and to praise her work tonight. I direct the reader to the NYTimes obituary whic...
1947 Map of Palestine: from National Geographic Friends and readers, Being of an intellectual disposition, as I have watched with distress and horror the unfolding massacre in and continuing dest...