Quotes by : Michael Dirda

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to....

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that....

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys....

Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed....

Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing....

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner,....

Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravitate....

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas,....

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was....

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly....