Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: François Soubirous gets up in the dark. It is just six. Long ago he lost possession of the silver watch th...

Affability, affabilitas , is also called amicitia , friendliness, but I think that, despite the fact that 'affability' in English us...

Reading The Song of Bernadette , I'm finding that a refresher course in mid-nineteenth-century France is helpful, although the story can...

* Roger Berkowitz corrects misinterpretations of Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem * Yu Hua discusses China's recent filial piety law...

Dead silence fell. Out of deep valleys fogs unfurling floated upward; dim vapours drowned, dank and formless, the hills under heaven, the...

This is the sixth part of a short story draft. Part I . Part II . Part III . Part IV . Part V . I was at home on Friday, just finishing up...

This is from Mary Wollstonecraft's children's book, Original Stories from Real Life . But, of course, the moral is for everyone, a...