John Baker’s Blog

A sample:
My single friends (and believe me I’m not the only one, there are scores of us) have various solutions to the problem. Marsha, for example, said, six months ago when we had lunch at Nicole’s beneath the bevelled mirrors among a hundred other women identically dressed in pastel cashmere, ‘Alix, you really don’t understand [...]

‘One of the challenges of our time,’ he said without a hint of self-consciousness, ‘is to re-interpret the Ten Commandments.
‘The Ten Commandments are not the Ten Tentative Suggestions. They were given to us at a time when the great Other of traditional society was a necessity. Since we have now internalized the Other we need [...]