Reading for the candidates: Koslow’s ‘Slouching’

The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that about 1.7 million students graduated from U.S. colleges in June. While many have gone on to grad school or to start promising careers, a big percentage are back home with Mom and Dad—so much for the empty nest—and Sally Koslow wants to know more about them. “Who … Continue reading Reading for the candidates: Koslow’s ‘Slouching’

Bach is back … actually, he never left

  That's the point of Paul Elie's new book, "Reinventing Bach" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).  I thought the bookish highlight of my week was hearing Robert K. Massie talk about Catherine the Great -- wrong.  Elie gave a vivid, intimate lecture to an audience Thursday night at Claremont McKenna College - another of the Gould Center's … Continue reading Bach is back … actually, he never left