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Ah, the machinations and justifications that go into the acquiring of power. I seem to be seeing it everywhere lately. New York's curr...

I continue to be impressed by the battered little worlds Charles D'Ambroiso conjures up in his short story collection The Dead Fish Mus...

Rose Tremain's The Road Home is a good, old fashioned novel, and I mean that in the best sense. A central character wants something ba...

Martin Brennan is what is known as a "late bloomer." In his last year of high school in Northern Ireland, he sits dutifully with ...

One morning in Chicago I had tiptoed to the kitchen with the intention of making some coffee. While customarily spilling grounds all over t...

It's not as if I didn't have enough books started, but when I came home last night after dinner out and a walk around the hot, humid...

Maryanne Wolf, the author of Proust and the Squid , a book that chronicles the evolution of written language and how the brain accommodated ...

In 1908 in Chicago, a young, poor Jewish immigrant comes to the door of the police chief to deliver a letter. Once inside, he is shot to de...

Let it be said that I already come to Breath a Tim Winton fan and that, if you haven't read Cloudstreet , I believe you are cheating yo...

After reading the book, and seeing himself included in it, my friend Jorge Mor had called me and said, 'You've got every right, Gabr...

Interesting, in light of the many voices raised world-wide against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) this weekend, that I am...

After reading Sebastian Beaumont's addictive novel Thirteen for a while, I just couldn't help noticing how much the cover reminded ...

I've just begun reading Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont. In it, a guy's business goes bust and he mopes around for a while and then...

I remember being a guest on a public radio interview show in Chicago a number of years ago after having directed Virginia , a play about the...

George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and now Bernard MacLaverty . It's such a c...

My advisor at school had loaned this book to me months ago, as I am training in her child neuropsychology lab. Lissa Weinstein (the author ...