Doubt the Experts

The remainder of the book was a little tedious to read, but on the whole I have found it rewarding. Vivian Maier, from a research standpoint...

I'm halfway through this biography, which is written by Pamela Bannos, a professor of photography at Northwestern University. Vivian Mai...

I started to read the latest Krasznahorkai book but gave up after several attempts. It consists of short chapters and stories, and I couldn...

While I find the political situation in the U.S. deplorable, with the arrival of a vulgar, uninformed, bombastic, self-interested and dishon...

I haven't been writing as much as usual, because I haven't had much to say. Recently, I've been spending more time on active inv...

The political atmosphere in the U.S., you may have noticed, has become rather charged in recent years. One encounters political arguments of...

Though I'm not particularly busy (I never am), various factors are preventing me from writing much on the blog. The new car purchase has...

Over the last year, I have enjoyed finally being able to put my investment experience and M.B.A. to practical use and make money in the stoc...

After his family's arrival in France, Milosz continued to live near Paris and worked as a journalist. They bought a house in 1957. Janka...

Surprisingly, the war years in Warsaw were among the happiest in Milosz's life. He and Janka were well-matched intellectually, and she w...

1931 was a confusing year in Milosz's life, and he was not completely forthright about it in his public writings. Franaszek makes an adm...

I'm making some progress in this biography of Czeslaw Milosz by Andrzej Franaszek and, as is my custom, will comment on it as I go. Ever...

Those of you who have no interest in rodents will be pleased to know that my removal efforts have been successful, and I probably won't ...

I've made a little progress in the book I'm reading on Milosz, but not enough to comment at length. I have been thinking about why I...

I've decided that the reason why I'm so picky about what I read is that the authors available, no matter how touted they may be, ten...

I had been planning to write about The Theory of the Leisure Class , by Thorstein Veblen, but after thumbing through it decided that a caref...

The third and last story in the  Lászl ó   Krasznahorkai collection that I've been reading is quite different from the others but contin...

I'm reading a very small volume of short stories by  Lászl ó   Krasznahorkai. Two of the stories are about Herman, a game warden in a ru...