A Boat Against the Current

“The human heart has hidden treasures,     In secret kept, in silence sealed;   The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures...

“October’s half over and the leaves have not begun to surrender.”— Poet and nonfiction writer Maureen Ryan Griffin, “Symphony in E...

[ Dr. Montague has just gotten through a vigorous session of “discipline” meted out by the evil Nurse Diesel, leaving him unable to si...

“Finally, it seems, the ideal devil is a foreigner. To qualify as a devil, a domestic enemy must be given a foreign ancestry. Hitler f...

“One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic. One somehow wanders or stumbles...