The Barbarians Are Hungry

For the past four years, the American Historical Association has sponsored a Summer Reading Challenge. Each year, there are a series of prom...

    It's a long weekend here in the Netherlands and I am celebrating by staying in to read and do my grading. Yesterday, I finished A Dr...

Here are new recipes I tried this academic year. The list is not complete for November, when I was ferociously busy with job applications; o...

The White Lilies As a man and woman make a garden between them like a bed of stars, here they linger in the summer evening and the evening t...

Learning New Words With Lymond is back! This series wends its way through the alphabet in an attempt to understand and appreciate the inter...

Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth s...

To my great surprise, I completed the 2024 Books in Translation Challenge having read ten books translated into English from nine different...