Sondheim, R.I.P., and More
"Society isn’t dead. But it is pallid and fretful, like a shut-in staring all day long at nothing but a screen, mistaking a mirror for a window" ... more »
Literary critics rarely attain enduring reputations. T.S. Eliot may have been the last of such men of letters ... more »
The irony of the harpsichord: It produces delightful subtleties that can be he…