By Ron Rosenbaum 9/11/00 12:00am

My Survivor Lesson: Join The Edgy Alliance!

As someone who believes it’s never too late to learn Life’s Lessons wherever one finds them, I have to admit I’ve learned a profound and surprising lesson from Survivor . I learned that my problem in life is that I’ve never formed alliances. For too long I’ve been a loner, gone my own way, walked Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 5/24/99 12:00am

Of Gnats and Men: A New Reading of Portis

At last! The arrival in stores and in my hands of the newly reissued edition of Charles Portis’ criminally neglected American classic, The Dog of the South , has been the occasion of two kinds of thrills for me.

First there was the thrill of accomplishment, of a long quest fulfilled: Columns I’d written here Read More