Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the... →
Jane Smiley
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is... →
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something... →
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me... →
Arthur Smith
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their... →
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity... →
Chris Smith
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and... →
Gordon Smith
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month... →