Today at the DBR: Extracts from works by Janet Groth, Tom Scocca, Elizabeth Bishop and Edward Pearce.

Today at the DBR: Marilyn Monroe — all that’s missing from The Other Boleyn Girl.

Today at the DBR: Language and lingering childhood in Miranda.

Today at the DBR: David Brooks takes credit where credit is due.

Today at the DBR: The updated screwball, happy ending of Celeste and Jesse Forever.

This weekend at the DBR: Rashida Jones rules! All I thought about was how smart her new movie is.

Today at the DBR: It’s the regulars in Donna Leon’s novels who bring me back for more.

This month on the Internet, through links from the DBR.

Today at the DBR: In order to fill up the ice chest, I must download a song from long ago.

Today at the DBR: Reading Donna Leon, and responding to Ross Douthat (which involved reading a bit of Leviticus).

This weekend at the DBR: Early to bed &c. If it feels like a long weekend, that’s because Kathleen has been away for a long time.

Today at the DBR: Snatches of Elizabeth Taylor, Francis Bacon, and Bruce Springsteen.

Today at the DBR: In a world of differences.

Today at the DBR: Boning up on the means of transportation.

Today at the DBR: About that line in the sand…

Today at the DBR: Mozart at the gateway to his fortune.

This weekend at the DBR: An idea for the NRA.

Today at the DBR: A very beautiful piano (in both senses), and an extract from Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter.

Today at the DBR: Civil words, we trust, about Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, now in paper.  

Today at the DBR: A few words about a very intriguing book, Paul French’s Midnight in Peking.