What a terrific month! Yes, the first ten days were busy: bringing the semester to a close; dealing with the fallout of the lousy previous months; celebrating with our graduates. But then the pace …| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
At the beginning of A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, now in theaters and on Netflix, an intercontinental ballistic missile shows up on the radar screens of a tracking station in Alaska. Is it a test? A malfunction? If, as it soon becomes clear, it’s real, who launched it? These questions are picked […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Here is my introduction to Episode 38 of the podcast I co-host with Rebecca Hussey and Frances Evangelista, One Bright Book. Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta, Preparation for a Bullfight (1903) Our book …| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
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A recent episode of The Mookse and the Gripes podcast got me thinking. Hosts Trevor and Paul were joined by John Williams of the Washington Post (mensches one and all). John had proposed a fascinat…| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
If you’re reading this, you are faithful indeed. And I am grateful. Long silence here, I know. As my adopted country tumbles into authoritarianism, things have also been changing, though more positively, chez EMJ. My wife, daughter, and I are moving to St Louis in a month’s time! We’ve spent quite a bit of time […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Friends, I am here to apologize to Matt Keeley, who wrote this great piece for me many months ago and has waited patiently (or maybe fumed silently) for me to publish it. I have no good excuse: I got busy and forgot. Terrible. Anyway, this really is a case of better late than never. Matt […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Here is my introduction to Episode 35 of the podcast I co-host with Rebecca Hussey and Frances Evangelista, One Bright Book. Our book today is Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, first published in 1913. O Pioneers! was Cather’s second novel, and her first big success. It’s a short book, episodic in structure, centered on Alexandra Bergson, […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Dropping this as something to keep you busy—and maybe even entertained—while I carve out the time to write my Year in Review piece. I won’t be catching up on the last half of the year—in fact, not sure I’m going to continue with the monthly pieces, might be time to try something new—but I’d already […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his fourth, is by Scott Walters. Scott launched the much-lamented blog seraillon in 2010, and expects to return to it one of these days. He largely follows Primo Levi’s model of “occasional and erratic reading, reading out of curiosity, impulse […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his fourth, is by that titanic reader, the one and only James Morrison. James lives and works in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna territory. BEST BOOKS READ IN 2024: An Annotated Index of Limited Utility Books—there’s never any end to them, […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, her third, is by my friend Anja Willner. Anja lives and works in Berlin. I’ve been logging my reading for seven years now. (A fairy-tale number, seven. I can’t name any other thing I’ve been doing for that long.) 2024 […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
