Michael Dirda is synonymous with the literary life. He’s been called “the best-read person in America,” and it’s easy to ...

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and author of the memoir “An Open Book,” the Edgar Award-winning critical study "On Conan Doyle," and ...

It takes a special writer to generate “more than modest pleasure” from a book-length reflection on living through old age, said Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. But because 91-year-old ...

As the Washington Post’s Michael Dirda wrote in 2023, the composer’s “increasingly esoteric music regularly elicited catcalls and uproar from early audiences.” After fleeing the Nazis in ...