The long view of history highlights some compression towards the present.

We do. Moreover, we plan to read more in 2009 than we did in 2008. I noted in " Twilight of the Books " last January that my wife ...

Matthew K. Tabor said some kind words about Patriots and Peoples when he tagged me with this meme. The rules: The rules of the game ge...

Written in a spiral notebook 28 June 1995, Fort Loudon Lake, Tennessee. What we call history and what we call the novel are more recent than...