My school had the privilege of hosting Mr. Timothy Snyder—Yale historian, expert on Ukraine affairs, and the author of On Freedom—as a visiting speaker at our concert hall. As I sat outside checking people in, I saw my professor’s kids, elderly alumni, current students and their families slowly filling up the auditorium. I’d never seen…
Welcome to the hunting grounds—or New York (says Melissa Bank, indirectly, through her epigraphs): where an aristocratic herd of blue blazers move along Park Avenue, Manhattan, and run in groups along the Hudson River…where finding a relationship is sort of like lying in wait by a rushing river, in hopes of ensnaring a fish, then…
An “exquisite irony” that happened to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 upon its first publication in 1953 was that edited, censored versions of it (with drugs and profanity removed) began circulating the markets. This was without Bradbury’s knowledge, until 1979 when some teachers and students noticed the difference in their classroom copies, and it reached Bradbury’s…