"Equality or Dignity?" Christopher Warley explores the tension at the heart of Erich Auerbach's work alongside recent biographies of Derrida and Spenser.

The topic of our attachment to words is allegorical of our attachments to ourselves and to other persons.

the erotic maskWorn the world over by illusionTo weddings of itself and simple need.

Following up on my earlier post on Nantucket, as well as all the discussion here about Ngrams, I want to offer a few spontaneous speculations based on a new paper that's the talk of at least a couple of neighborhoods in the town.