Flogging Babel

. If you want to be terrified by cultural ignorance, you have only to go to YouTube, where an activist went to four major universities...

. Today is set aside for all of us to express our gratitude for what we have.  Though it is religious in origin, nonbelievers are not excl...

.   Fresh out today from Tor.com -- which is, come to think, a House of Dreams in the positive sense -- is the latest installment in...

. I'm experimenting here.  For only the second time in my life, I'm keeping a dream diary.  (Excerpts from my first were publ...

 . Here's something nifty that came in the mail just the other day:  The Emperor's Crystal by Lord Dunsany .   This is vo...

. In the New York Times this morning, an explanation of the strange, backhanded grip used by the blind Zatoichi in a series of samurai m...

. Our reading habits evolve over our lifetimes.  As a child, I compulsively read the backs of cereal boxes, even when I already knew ...