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Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
This letter from Bernard Richards in the 29th June TLS caught my eye: Sir, – Francis Hope spoke in his reprinted review of Nabokov’s Ada (From the Archives, June 22) of authors writing…
Originally posted on The Broken Towers:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…
An Ash Wednesday I’ll Never Forget: Chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in God will believe in anything, but he ought to have because…
Séamus Sweeney 