Closing Time, by Joe Queenan

Closing Time: A memoir by Joe Queenan Viking Recommendation: Borrow from a library if you're going fishing and think you won't be catching much. Joe Queenan's dad was a self-defeating…

Leszek Kolakowski is dead

From Roger Kimball we learn that the fascinating Polish philosopher has died. Kolakowski was probably best know for his magisterial three-volume Main Currents of Marxism , published in the late…