Best fiction: Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather. This was not my first time reading this book, but as is often the case with boo...

I read less fiction than usual this past year, a frustrating situation, though perhaps of a piece with a year of being upended.   Neverthele...

"I still [love] ... you a little, but hardly at all." Letter from Maria von Wedemeyer to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, May 6, 1944 JW Warwi...

  Best Books 2021 I   read slightly fewer books in 2021 than in years past. Nevertheless, a handful of   books stand out.   Books sometimes ...

We have come to  the end of an extraordinary year. I began this post days ago but so much has happened so quickly that I didn't want to ...