Wes Phillips

Or, in my case, doesn't. Gary Lynch thinks he has the answer.

Bryson writing about Shakespeare, that is. <I>The Times</I> offers an excerpt from <I>Shakespeare</I>.

Alexander Zakharov posts, well, a Soviet poster every day. Best of all, he provides a lot of useful historical and artistic context for them. I've always been fascinated by the visual bravura of these posters, now I get to discover the "hidden" meaning to them, which, of course, weren't hidden to the proletariat .

Florence Foster Jenkins was many things. A teacher, a philanthropist, and a kind and generous friend, by many accounts. What she was not, was a gifted vocal artist, despite her unshakable belief to the contrary.

Paul West writes the first aphasic memoir. As a writer, I find the loss of language skills the most terrifying boogie man of them all.

The Harvey acquisition of MyerEmco announced in <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/051407harvey/">May</A&gt; has been called off. The merger&mdash;which was supposed to have closed by June 7, later extended to the end of July, and then pushed back to August 10&mdash;called for Harvey to pay $10 million in cash and assume MyerEmco's debt.

<B>John Atkinson: Making It Live</B>
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The e-mail from <I>Stereophile</I> reviewer Bob Reina was straightforward: "I want to make a demo of my new jazz group. I plan to record the session in my living room by getting my old four-channel Teac 3440 out of mothballs and sticking one or two mikes on each instrument. I'd like your view on which mikes would be most appropriate for the four instruments . . . "