The New York Film Festival

A report

The Workmen

Keeping the faith

The Roads Not Taken

I coulda been a contender—as a cantor

What Our Politicians Can’t Bring Themselves to Say

(And why the personal essay might help)

The Martyrdom Prayers

Enigmas and mysteries

“Give Me a Place”

On Montaigne and Judaism

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

Holding On to the Banister

The art of being cautious

September Song

And so a new year begins

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

Can a film really capture the essence of both?

Listening to Dinah

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

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