What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn..

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do..

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time..

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think..

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrus….

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island..

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want..

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch..

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point..

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French..

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind..

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the ….

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into..

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many wer….

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situati….

There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. Wh….