The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has spent a lifetime writing about books and reading, most recently for a series of columns in the American Scholar, now collected in “Browsings.” The result is a set of appealingly conversational meditations on the life of the mind. Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.” True enough, yet the description hardly conveys the charm of these “bite-sized literary entertainments.” Read full article >>