Browsings

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "e;the best-read person in America"e; (The Paris Review) and "e;the best book critic in America"e; (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ...