Michelle, myself and I: some advice for Barack Obama from the much-neglected Department of Pronouns.
The Atlantic’s Barbara Wallraff and Joe Pickett of the American Heritage Dictionary are having a polite conversation about polite conversation.
“It’s not about unrequited tragic love,” observes Sancho Panza of Engelbert Humperdinck’s operatic version of Hansel and Gretel, “it’s about eating …”
“I still have a callused knobby excrescence on the third finger of my right hand:” Michael Dirda reviews a new history of handwriting by Kitty Burns Florey.
“The danger of being overwhelmed by the forces of nature is like a certificate of authenticity:” Peter Campbell has a series of thoughts on Wordsworth, Coleridge, the hanging of Turner’s The Goddess of Discord at the Tate, and the will to recreate understanding with urgent force and vivacity in our age of diverging disciplines and impenetrable art.
And won’t you believe it, it’s just my luck: recess, yes.
