Field Green: Book Review
It must be a memoir. A reader — or a fact-checker — could challenge any number of things, especially names, including the name of the author. But there can be no doubt about the...
Category: writing
Books and Islands: Book Review
I was born and raised in Minnesota, much of which lies in Ojibwe country. For years, however, I assumed that I should study my own heritage, namely German, and so I grew up in...
I Who have Never Known Men; Book Review
Jacqueline Harpman, I Who have Never Known Men, trans. Rod Schwartz, Avon Eos, 1998, first published in French, 1998) If anything, it heightened my respect for contemporary fiction — — I’d call it futuristic...
Tintagel in Late Antiquity
Tintagel in Late Antiquity was a conference, held in Truro, Cornwall, April 21-23. Although I am pretty much an outsider, both to archeology and to Cornwall (a transplanted American!) I’m really glad I went...
Gesture and Speech
This book makes human evolution look more exciting and provocative than I would have thought possible. In particular, it explains why, when we know that many, probably most plants and animals have evolved to...
Arcana: Musicians on Music
There are ten of these books — same title, volumes I – X — published at irregular intervals between 2000 and last year. I don’t own them all (about half are in my nearby...