Two links below bring the visitor to two finished pieces. Their content diverges, but together they can be called representative in the expression of a sensibility and of interests.
Here is first link . . .
“Letter from Lima” – The New Criterion, June 2011
Now a change of pace — and of flavor. I have been a devoted reader of Thornton Wilder for fifty years. This link addresses a piece with which Wilder himself was unhappy.
“Thornton Wilder and the gods” – The New Criterion, May 2011