The Island is a Camp
Like most Americans, I don’t own a TV. I know it’s a cliché, but the truth is that I’m happy spending my time engaged in the quintessentially American pastimes of solving complex math problems, playing...
View ArticleSaramago
Here in Lisbon they’ve cremated José Saramago. The winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature (he was Portugal’s second Nobel laureate, António Egas Moniz having won the 1949 prize in medicine for...
View ArticleContext and Emergence
Focused as some of us are on medieval and early modern literature, the question of context comes up a great deal. Is our work sufficiently contextualized? Where and how do modern theories of language...
View ArticleZoo-closeness
Two summers ago, my family and I decided to spend an afternoon at Lisbon's Jardim Zoológico. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that our eldest daughter made the decision to go and wouldn't relent...
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