Lord Dunsany was an aristocrat, a soldier, a sportsman, an avid chess player, and an author. He wrote many things, both in terms of genre--poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays--and in quantity. Such a varied and prolific career was typical of many B...
The career of Lord Dunsany all too easily invokes the stereotype of the aristocratic literateur. By his own avowal, he was first of all a sportsman and a soldier; writing was an avocation. His plays, especially, reflect this approach, never quite losing...
Extraordinarily prolific in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, translation, autobiography, and memoir, including fifteen short-fiction collections and at least one hundred uncollected short stories, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth Ba...
Time and the Gods is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in...
GOD, DEATH, AND TIME. By Emmanuel Levinas. Translated from the French by Bettina Bergo. Meridian Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford: Stanford University, 2000. Pp. xii + 296. $49.50; $18.95. This collection of two lectures by Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne during the academic year 1975-76,...
WHEN THEY told us in Sunday School that God is everywhere, they could have been talking about the recent news cycle. With Harriet Miers, we see that God lives in the politics of the US Supreme Court nomination process. In a culture defined by...
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims prayed Friday on the desert mountain where the Prophet Muhammad delivered his final sermon, seeking forgiveness of their sins in a key ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage.Nearly 3 million pilgrims flooded into a sprawling tent city at Mount Arafat,...
The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76.Kennedy died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, said Kristin Cole, a spokeswoman for...
