Tag: Family

• December 17, 2025

  Why Does The Reiner Story Gnaw At Us?

  Why is the Reiner story–the story about Rob and Michele possibly being killed by their son Nick–so horrifying? Why, that is to say, do some national and international stories grab us and tear at us while others do not? Aristotle knew well: the stories that really get or, even, gnaw at us are, properly speaking,…
• March 13, 2012

  On kith and kin

  As it happens, [Flaubert’s] “Un Coeur Simple” is a magisterial example of…how it is possible to enter into, and convey to others, a mental world that is not one’s own…. –Anthony Daniels, “Flaubert’s Simple Heart,” New Criterion (June 1, 2010) *   *   * My grandpa liked to take my hand in his large,…