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“Pepys in the Time of Plague” (part III of III) [by Thomas Moody]
“…do lament the condition we are in, by a negligent Prince and a mad Parliament.” — Samuel Pepys Reading these entries with the benefit of nearly four centuries of hindsight, we know that London…
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Geoffrey O’Brien’s “Phantom Empire” [by David Lehman]
Geoffrey O'Brien's The Phantom Empire (1993) is one of the all-time great odes to Hollywood. In gorgeous prose O'Brien adopts the associative logic of a Hollywood dream to address the subject of movies in general…
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“Pepys in the Time of Plague” (part II of III) [by Thomas Moody]
“In the evening home to supper; and there, to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come into the City; but where should it begin but in my good friend and neighbours’, Dr.…
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“STOP Window” [by Susan Gunter]
Susan E. Gunter is a professor, Henry James scholar, poet, and watercolor artist. She began painting eight years ago, working from her own photographs and using just three colors: Windsor blue, alizarin crimson,…
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Squibs 409-411 [by Alan Ziegler]
409: Most Sundays of my father’s final year, I take the 4:05 train to Lynbrook. For a couple of weeks in the spring and fall, the landscape glows, a suburban Hopper, and darkness settles as…
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“Pepys in the Time of Plague” (part I of III) [by Thomas Moody]
“But Lord! What a sad time it is to see no boats upon the River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and nobody but poor wretches in the streets!” —…
