I reviewed volumes one and two of Micheal Posner’s oral history of the life of Leonard Cohen (Leonard Cohen: Untold … More
Author: editorskinner
The New Language Police
I wrote four articles on the new political correctness for American Purpose. The first discusses the term homeless and the … More
April Fools’ Wedding Anniversary 2020
What is it like to have no gift, no gag, no game at all, when your twentieth anniversary comes up … More
AIDS History Project
The NEH-supported AIDS History Project focuses on how the city of San Francisco experienced and responded to this terrible disease.
First Draft of the King James Bible
An interview in Humanities magazine with scholar Jeffrey Alan Miller, MacArthur “genius” grant winner, and NEH research fellow.
My tour of the new World Trade Center
A while back, I spent an incredible day with Judith Dupre, author of an excellent large-scale book about One World … More
John Simpson, Word Detective
Was impressed by this lexicographical memoir by former OED editor John Simpson. I have read enough writing by lexicographers to … More
On Charles McCarry
I have been reading McCarry’s latest, The Mulberry Bush, which made me think I should post my 2009 profile of … More
Edmund Wilson and the Rise of American Lit
For several years, I have had a hunger to write this piece about the arrival of the Library of America … More
Verily: Men Versus Women
Women are more correct and more with-it: A piece inspired by reading Matt Gordon’s primer on the work of the … More