Monthly Archives: December 2025

McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. Simon and Schuster New York 1985. F;12/25. This is a long and widely-admired tale of American cowboys in the late 1870s. But I’d say it would be a mistake to dismiss it as a standard “western”. … Continue reading →

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, London 1945. 12/25; F. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. (DH Lawrence) Daniel Handler disagrees. He tells … Continue reading →

Bregman, Rutger. Humankind: A Hopeful History. Original Dutch 2019, English Translation Little, Brown Boston 1921. NF; 12/25. Both a good friend and a random Instagram post recommended this and so reaching around as usual for something interesting I read it. … Continue reading →

December 2025 I had no idea when we booked the week of our anniversary at the Mexico hotel by the same name as this restaurant that we were diving into a worldwide empire. Nobu Matsuhisha is a 76-year-old Japanese chef … Continue reading →

December 2025 This is one of several restaurants in Nobu Los Cabos, a high-end resort on the Mexican Baja California peninsula. We are here for a week and haven’t yet had dinner at the main restaurant Nobu. It’s not clear … Continue reading →