David Matthews Portable Bohemia

Bird on a Wire David Remnick, Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker, The New Yorker, October 17, 2016 #SaturdayEveningwith

The current issue of The New York Review of Books has a delightful review of Robert Gottlieb's memoir Avid Reader. Gottlieb is an editor,...

Three from the NW Film Center New Scandinavian Cinema Series What say we move the conversation away from politics for the moment. Last...

Hillary Clinton conducted herself with honor this week, as did Barack Obama. Donald Trump is the new president. He won the election. The...

Today I finished Elena Ferrante's The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and final Neapolitan novel. With the last page a phase of my...

Last night's post has a needlessly provocative title (Juan Cole asks, Did your mother drop you on your head?) that distracts from the...