Posts Tagged ‘Old Age’
Holding On to the Banister
The art of being cautious
Read MoreRiveting
Keep Smiling
An agnostic sermon
Read MoreOn Loneliness
We value our solitude until it pinches
Read MoreA Whole Day Nearer Now
But all life’s passion not quite spent
Read MoreHush
At Sixty-Five
After the excesses of youth and terrors of middle age, a writer faces the contingencies of being old
Read MoreIt’s Only Oblivion
We aren’t expendable, but must fend for ourselves
Read More“I’m Done”
A look at artists in their autumnal years
Read MoreJacques Barzun—and Others
The eminent scholar was among the last representatives of a grand literary tradition
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