Loads of Learned Lumber

 I GOT NINETY-NINE problems but Margaret ain’t one, thank God. Sounds like she was a doozy of a problem for the House of Windsor, a standing...

 STRUCTURALLY, SOMETHING OF a mystery-thriller: narrator Seth and his college buddy Carter, who comes from a fabulously wealthy family, use ...

 HERE I AM, getting tips on great comics from the New York Review of Books . A welcome new direction for them, a sad reminder of how old I a...

 FUNNY THING, MY experience with this one developed along exactly the same lines as had my experience of its predecessor, Home . I was looki...

 CHRISTLE'S BOOK-LENGTH ESSAY bears an accurate title, as it does contain a lot of information about tears and draws on technical studie...

NOT A SEQUEL to Dept of Speculation , but almost feels like one.The narrator, Lizzie, is a young(ish) married woman, one child, living in Ne...

THIS IS MY ninety-third post of the year, seven over my previous annual high. And it’s only July. What’s going on? More time to read, no dou...