Enduring Lives, Persistent Memory

June 2, 2019

People die. That’s a fact. But trailing behind like a thick cape is another fact. It is the fact that memory rears its high-minded head: the memory of the life lived, […]

Herman Wouk: Writer With a Big W

May 20, 2019

For a considerable time, starting in 1951, Wouk and his wife Betty lived on the corner of Potomac and M Streets in a home that is part of Smith Row, dating to 1810.