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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till You’ve Won (by Nin Andrews)
After hearing about the Nobel Prize for Literature, I was reminded of my first grade class, particularly of a workbook for what was then called New Math. The workbook included pictures of sets…
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Clearing a Path to Truth: On Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” [by David Lehman]
ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPHER SERRA From the Wall Street Journal, October 15-16, 2016 Not the least of Robert Frost’s accomplishments is that he managed to balance popularity with artistic excellence. Take “The Road Not Taken” (1916),…
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“I nominated Bob Dylan for the Nobel Prize. You’re welcome” [by Gordon Ball]
People may not realize that Nobel Prizes, like other awards, are actively campaigned for. It is as if lobbyists, albeit unpaid ones, were out there petitioning the committee in Stockholm. Here is Gordon Ball's…
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Highway 61 (Revisited) [by David Lehman]
In the name of Abe – biblical predecessorof honest Abe, who freed the slaves,and also Bobby’s dad — I stand at your gatewith faith equal to doubt, and I say,look out kid, no matter…
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“Joy in Mudville” [by Peter Ferry]
We are disoriented. Cubs fans are used to moving on to football by October. Our association with baseball in the fall has usually been looking over someone’s shoulder at a TV in a bar…
