Some three years ago I was asked to edit the English language version of noted Cuban exile author Carlos Alberto Montaner's compact history of the Cuban people,...
Thanks to Robin Theiss of STL Books & Gifts for her recommendation in Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on the year's favorite books:
“Fail” by Rick Skwiot (fiction)...
This sentence describing a dismal dinner is, says Mark Forsyth, “perhaps the greatest anadiplosis” ever written:
“If the soup had been as warm as the wine, and the...
Qiu Xiaolong, author, most recently, of Enigma of China: An Inspector Chen Novel and ten other fiction and poetry books, recently read and praised my new St....
As the holiday season approaches, those looking for something to cheer them and put them in a nostalgic holiday mood might turn to my critically acclaimed childhood...
It hardly surprises me to see my hometown—erstwhile U.S. murder capital St. Louis, Missouri—make the top 50 of the world’s most violent cities, a list compiled by...
The success and dominance of the Anglosphere—notably the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and, increasingly, India—finds its roots in the rights of first-century...
I was walking in the Missouri woods yesterday morning, in rural Warren County, some 60 miles west of St. Louis. A beautiful autumn day—50, sunny, calm. Still...
When an idiosyncratic book on English grammar becomes a bestseller in the United Kingdom, it makes one wonder who is buying it. English-as-a-second language immigrants? Schoolteachers? Students...