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I have always thought I would like to write someone's biography one day, since I enjoy reading them so much. I even have someone in m...

"After Pat's death, John Mortimer wrote a tribute, saying he thought she was in love with Mr. Ripley,' says Charles Latimer, ...

In the perfect follow-up to last week’s question, as suggested by C in DC :Is there a book that you wish you could “unread”? One that you ...

I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While is a real surprise. If Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote in Japanese...I'm repeating myself, I ...

Another couple of weeks and The Ragazzo and I will be on vacation in England, so I'll be selecting my vacation reads from among these (a...

One paper yet to write, but the exams are done. Meanwhile, I have gotten through close to half of Beautiful Shadow a biography of Patri...

What book would you love to be able to read again for the first time? It was between three for me, The Gold Bug Variations , For Kings a...

I am deluged. One small paper, one final exam, and one big paper to go, so reading is occasional, moments caught on the subway (although ev...

The multiple layers of Margaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth uncoil like the strands of DNA that are at its heart. The complicated sto...

Along with the theme of origins in Margaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth that I mentioned in my first post - how our makeup, both biog...

Not..., according to John Tierney's article in today's Science Times : Now that neuroscientists have identified the brain'...

Take Don Delillo's White Noise mix in a little of Terry Gilliam's Brazil , stir well, and you might have something that starts t...

What to say having finished Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Under Ground ? Certainly it provided amusements in a macabre sort of way, su...

With the economy gone to the dogs and our health going to the pigs and an all-round atmosphere of hysteria that is becoming the real reas...

I have never read any of the work of Margaret Drabble, author of 13 novels and 2 biographies, editor of The Oxford Companion to English Lit...

As we approach the last 3 weeks of the semester, I'm not sure how I am going to keep up here. I'll do my best. I managed to finis...

Question suggested by Barbara H : My husband is not an avid reader, and he used to get very frustrated in college when teachers would insis...

I have to be at the lab at 8 am today, so I don't have time for any lengthy thoughts, but in the section of Cynthia Ozick's The Pu...

With a name like Puttermesser, a girl from the Bronx is likely to be a little...different. Ruth leaves a blue-blood law firm to work for ...

Broadway is sporting a new production of Mary Stuart . It's a new version of Shiller's classic play by Peter Oswald directed by Phy...