Quotes by : Michael Dirda

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss....

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes,....

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

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they....

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

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales....

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her....

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international....

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

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