Richard AbramsonBook Review: Kazuo Ishigura’s Klara and the SunNobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishigura’s most recent novel, Klara and the Sun, revolves around Klara, a perceptively sentient AF —…Aug 11, 2022Aug 11, 2022
Richard AbramsonPoint of View: Or, We’re Not Dead YetOne hears the whispers — “they’re growing older, Winter looms, their days grow colder.” One never knows, they shake their heads, Might not…Jul 5, 2021Jul 5, 2021
Richard AbramsonFor Many of Us, Your Vaccination Is Our Only Defense Against the VirusAs new cases of COVID-19 fall, hospitalizations plummet, and we begin to return to something more closely resembling normal life, the…May 15, 2021May 15, 2021
Richard AbramsonA Type-A in Retirement: or It’s Hard to Aim When You Don’t Have a TargetI retired from the practice of law a few years ago, after a long and reasonably successful career. Top law school, federal court clerkship…Mar 14, 2021Mar 14, 2021
Richard AbramsonBook Review: Utopia Avenue, by David MitchellIf David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue — which traces the arc of a progressive folk-rock band in late-1960’s London — were a movie, it would be…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Richard AbramsonJames Buchanan is No Longer the Worst President EverFor one hundred and sixty years, historians who disagree on most things have been more or less united on at least one point; that James…Jan 17, 2021Jan 17, 2021
Richard AbramsonJust One WishI was at the Farmer’s Market, minding my own business, when I noticed an old brass lamp sitting on the ground. I picked it up and rubbed…Jan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Richard AbramsonI have a good friend, an accomplished novelist, who sometimes recommends a book.In most novels, of course, we are privy to the internal thoughts of the protagonist and, perhaps, one or two others. These are the…Dec 13, 2020Dec 13, 2020
Richard AbramsonAmericans Can’t Handle the TruthThank goodness for the kindness of Donald Trump. As Bob Woodward reports in his latest book, by consistently downplaying the severity of…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020