From My Bookshelf
Peter C. MeilaenderThere are so many books to read, and I need someone to share them with. (And because I've always wanted to belong to that elusive species, the "man of letters.")
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On the Banks of the Merrimack
The Merrimack River flowing through Manchester, New Hampshire, with some of the city’s former mill buildings behind it.
I have a fondness for rivers.
Perhaps it is the abstract fondness of an intellectual. I don’t believe I’ve ever...
Paul Gallico, Walter D. Edmonds, Lucretia P. Hale
Jane Austen is about as highbrow as it gets. But one can’t do highbrow all the time. I’ve also been reading several lowbrow books, and I’ll briefly share three of them here today. All were pleasant, well-told stories—feel-good stories, in f...
Jane Austen's "Persuasion": Let the Read-Along Begin
Title page of Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1909, with illustrations by C. E. Brock. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
As promised, today is the day we begin reading Jane Austen’s last novel, Persuasion, winner of the 2026 Literary Ma...
Too Soon for the Land of Endless Holiday
Isaak Asknaziy, Jewish wedding in a Russian shtetl, accompanied by a Klezmer band, 1893. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
In Tuesday’s post about Aaron Lansky and the Yiddish Book Center, I promised to follow up by writing about...
Yiddish Has Not Yet Said Its Last Word
The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
A few weeks ago, driving back from New Hampshire, we stopped in Amherst, Massachusetts, to see the Yiddish Book Center.
You didn’t know there was a Yiddish Book Center, you say? Th...
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Professor of Political Science and Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies at Houghton University. Writes about books, culture, and ideas at "From My Bookshelf."
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