The complete online text of A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce.

The American writer Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) expressed the cynicism of the post-Civil War era and shaped both the materials and the methods of writers who later voiced the disillusionment following World War I. Ambrose Bierce was born in Me...

The late Carey McWilliams, himself an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce, that aloof and independent iconoclast who was in the thick of some of the most important de...

The late Carey McWilliams, an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce , that aloof and independent iconoclast who was in the thick of some of the most important developme...

Living up to parents' dreams and expectations is often difficult enough. Add to that the complexities of growing up in the shadow of a high-achieving parent's accomplishments and all the attendant fame and that's yet another massive suitcase to put in the old emotional...

THE NEW PRINCE By Dick Morris Renaissance Books, 256 pp., $22.95 The reviewer approaches Dick Morris's new book with caution, as one would a mangy dog. Is it clean? Is it dangerous? "The New Prince," it turns out, is even scruffier than...