Welcome to my new location. I trust everyone who reads this will think it an improvement over Blogger.
Also, I want to offer a hearty, public thanks to Emeth Smith of Tokyo, who designed and set up this site for me. I know nothing about this kind of thing; I even needed help to set up on Blogger, for heaven’s sake. So, this site exists purely because of Emeth’s work. If it’s a good thing that it exists, then that should be reckoned to Emeth’s account.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…