Not long ago, I received an email from a writer whose book I’d rated as 3 stars on Amazon.  She complained that my ranking was too low and countered with the opinion of someone I did not know but whose reputation she considered to be greater than mine.  He said her novel was a mas

A few days after I published my blog, The Intentional Fallacy, (blog 8/8/14), a friend sent me a page from the Sunday edition of the New York Times Book Review. (July 29, pg. 31.)  It contained two articles, one by Thomas Mallon and the other by Adam Kirsch, each taking different vie

Academia is busily stirring another tempest in a tea pot as it attempts to assimilate technology into the teaching of humanities.  The new approach is called digital humanities and the first problem is how to define it.  At the moment the term includes everything from transcribing l