David Matthews Portable Bohemia

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warmed both hands before the fire of life;...

Rally to protect the Mueller investigation Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon #nobodyisabovethelaw Is it hyperbole to suggest that we are...

Autumn is in the air, as they say. The week has seen daily showers and temperatures no higher than 70. The change of season stirs that...

This is the conclusion of a two-part essay. Part I was published August 28, 2018. The going gets thorny when Jordan Peterson moves away...

The strange and curious case of Jordan Peterson could be the scenario for a television minidrama scripted by a disciple of Ayn Rand. An...

The Lives of the Surrealists by Desmond Morris Thames & Hudson, 272 pp., 2018 Until recently I knew Desmond Morris only vaguely as a...

In Man's Fate, André Malraux's novel about an episode in the Chinese revolution, Suan, a young terrorist, remarks that the sons of...

Yesterday afternoon I finally made it to a Reed College Friday @ 4 recital. The Friday @ 4 series came to my attention about six weeks...

I came across this story while trying to clean out and impose some semblance of order on the paper files. It was first published on my...

The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet tr. by Sam Taylor Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pp., 2017 "Life is not a novel. Or...

Part 1 of this two-part essay and review of The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols was published on April 17, 2018. Tom Nichols tells us...

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols Oxford University Press [2017],...

Along with the crime novels I can read with half my brain tied behind my back and go through at a rate that gives me pause, I recently...

Issues of cultural appropriation and identity politics lie in dark waters where intrepid scribes venture at their own peril. Strong...

Among the pleasures of reading is the encounter with remarks and observations that are witty, perceptive, intriguing, amusing, or simply...

So what have I done with the first month of retirement? Much or little? Does that matter? After all, I am supposedly retired. I don't...

The School of Life's video about Romanian-French philosopher and pessimist Emil Cioran was so intriguing I immediately placed holds on...

Glorious run this morning with temperature in the low 60s and sun all over the place when I set out at 6:15. The route took me from my...

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg 1955–1997 Edited...

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg 1955–1997 Edited...