Ghulf Genes

George Orwell’s super-states came to mind as another paragraph on the Greek bailout was penned yesterday. Europe’s negotiators broke off ta...

Of some thirteen eggs deposited on our dill plants early this butterfly season, six survived to form their pupae. Of these four had taken...

Brigitte shared an article the other day indicating that failing gait in the aging is now thought by some to be an early omen of the approac...

I am at the entrance of an experience, the reading of Virgil’s Aeneid . Having read one introduction, to C.S. Lewis’ translation of part of ...

Anyone inclined to follow G.K. Chesterton’s advice to read Virgil ( ht ), might consider the Robert Fitzgerald translation of The Aeneid ...

I happened across an evidently well-known Virgil quote yesterday on Laudator . It must be well known because I found it easy to get a transl...

One of our most persistent tendencies as humans is to produce the mirage of the Golden Age. We project this age both backward and forward in...

In Canto XVIII of Dante’s Paradiso, we enter a high heaven, that of Jupiter, where warrior saints have their space of manifestation. And up ...

Virgil was born in Mantua, in Northern Italy. And Dante was born in—and exiled from—Florence, located just to the south and east of Mantua,...

A few years ago Monique gave me Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran —and just tracing that experience would suffice for a post. For one t...