17 February 2026/
What is the meaning of life? THAT is the question — not “to be or not to be.” The usual...
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16 February 2026/
Every now and then another novel about immortality will appear on the charts. Dara Horn’s Eternal Life, first published in...
13 January 2026/
I thought I wrote the last words on “old age sucks,” but I am compelled to say bad things about...
9 December 2025/
Time out for a good word about homo sapiens. Well done, humans. In spite of wars, drive-by killings, child abuse,...
9 December 2025/
Old age sucks. But some people say it nicer. The poet Dylan Thomas, for example, says it real nice: Do...
9 September 2025/
Philip Roth in The Dying Animal: “(Old age) is not all uninterrupted dying . . . it’s invisible dying. ....