On Re-Reading The Fall of the House of Usher in Preparation for Attending the Ballet
There is something about a story like this that begs for interpretation. And running alongside that, when reading Poe, there is the temptation to read past »
Assassinated by Scorpions: Non-Spoiler Videos to Accompany A Song of Ice and Fire
The HBO television version of George R R Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire is hard for me to stomach. The sex »
Fillmore & Castle: Political Ascendency & the Mirrored Ceiling
The seventh of January is the birthday in 1800 of Millard Fillmore, who in 1850 became the thirteenth President of the United States of America. Fillmore »
Poetry in the Rearview Mirror
Dana Gioia's comments on the problem — well, actually a problem — with poetry in academia are something I wish I'd heard years ago, when I was myself »
Why I Practice
When I was still married and when I spoke with medical students or talked to people who asked me why I became a doctor, I used »