Michael Dirda
The Complete Browsings
Michael Dirda’s “Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books” will be published in book form in 2015.
- A Positively, Final Appearance
- Ending Up
- Book Projects
- Money
- A Dreamer’s Tale
- Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
- Books for the Holidays
- Christmas Reading
- In Praise of Small Presses
- Poe and Baudelaire
- “I’m Done”
- Language Matters
- What’s in a Name?
- Jacques Barzun—and Others
- Oberlin
- Waving Not Drowning
- Castles in Space
- Going, Going, Gone
- Dirty Pictures
- New and Old
- Mencken Day
- Then and Now
- Charlottesville
- The Evidence in the (Book) Case
- Musical Chairs
- Thrift Stories
- Out of Print
- Aurora
- Readercon
- Wonder Books
- Hot Enough for You?
- The Fugitive
- Rocky Mountain Low
- Anthologies and Collections
- After the Golden Age
- Anglophilia
- Grades
- Cowboys and Clubmen
- Synonym Toast
- Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit!
- Memories of Marseille
- Spring Book Sales
- Twilight of an Author
- Text Mess
- Books on Books
- Scribble, Scribble
- This Is a Column
- Paper
- Bookish Pets
- Armchair Adventures
- Style Is the Man
- Mr. Zinsser, I Presume
E-newsletter
How to Travel Without Seeing
By Andrés Neuman
This week, read an excerpt from the Argentinian novelist’s dispatches from Latin America
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Capital of Willows
By Eben Wood
After yet another nuclear test in North Korea—the fifth and largest this year—life behind the Bamboo Curtain seems more inscrutable than ever. Eben Wood’s visit to Pyongyang, the seat of Kim Jong Un’s regime, offers a glimpse of life inside the Hermit Kingdom
WISE TO THE WORDS
EDITORS’ PICKS
14 Novels of Love Gone Wrong
By Our Editors
Relationships doomed, damned, or otherwise disappointing
Ten Tales for Winter
By Our Editors
These stories and a warm blanket will get you through the cold
Winter Classical Music
By Sudip Bose
Ten pieces to warm your ears
A Literary Home for the Holidays
By Our Editors
Twelve books about family
Spooktacular Books
By Our Editors
Tales of the monstrous and bizarre
Thirteen for Halloween
By Michael Dirda
Even more terror-ific stories
Neglected Books Revisited
By Stephanie Bastek
What ever happened to the most neglected books of 1970?
Ten Worst Opening Lines
By Our Editors
Ten Neglected Classics
By Our Editors
Oft-forgotten books worthy of your acquaintance
List, List, O List!
By Sandra M. Gilbert
A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”
One Hundred Best American Novels 1770 to 1985 (a draft)
By David Handlin
A reading enthusiast’s list
The Best of The Bard
By Our Editors
Our favorite passages from Shakespeare
Ten Best Sentences
By Our Editors
