Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly...
MEMORIAL DAYS: A Memoir, by Geraldine Brooks Behind every good book lurks another, smaller book: a sidecar, an appendage, a mental dividend. Most never get written,...
She also warns about “candidate answers,” a kind of leading the witness, in which one asks an open-ended question only to narrow it down in anticipation....
