Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

The following review ran, a little shortened for space, in today's San Francisco Chronicle : CONTESTED WILL: Who Wrote Shakespeare? B...

This review appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle : ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS By William Boyd Harper, 416 pp., $26.99 We are all Ad...

Lapis lazuli carving given to Yeats by Henry Talbot De Vere ("Harry") Clifton Lapis Lazuli (For Harry Clifton) I have heard tha...

The following review appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle : A DEAD HAND: A Crime in Calcutta By Paul Theroux Houghton Mifflin Ha...

Five-Finger Exercises  I. Lines to a Persian Cat  The songsters of the air repair  To the green fields of Russell Square .  Beneath the tre...

The Soul has Bandaged moments --  When too appalled to stir --  She feels some ghastly Fright come up  And step to look at her --  Sal...

From The Wife of Bath's Prologue If you're not up to tackling the Middle English unaided, there's a parallel-text version (Middl...