Writing from 1930 s Shanghai, China s great essayist Lu Xun once observed Today there are all kinds of weeklies.

Perhaps so, but as the Polish essayist Stanislaw Jerzy Lec said You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.

And he referred me to this lovely quote from the Japanese Essays in Idleness from the 14th century, in which the essayist wrote, In everything, uniformity is undesirable.

LONDON It s been a better year for God. After withering literary assaults on the Almighty from the Oxford academic Richard Dawkins, the essayist Christopher Hitchens, and others, believers have hit back.

Writing from 1930 s Shanghai, China s great essayist Lu Xun once observed Today there are all kinds of weeklies. Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.

To the Israelis, Europe became the essayist Mario Andrea Rigoni s old lady, who after she had allowed herself all sorts of liberties and a great number of horrors, would like, once she has reached the age of society, fatigue, and weakness, to see the world adapt itself to her needs for moderation, equity, and peace.