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What’s the funniest book you’ve read recently? I didn't read To Say Nothing of the Dog all that recently however, it's the first ...

As I mentioned in my previous post , Iris Murdoch's The Nice and the Good begins with a shot, followed up by a body. For another writ...

I'm so glad each time that the Lincoln Center Festival rolls around because NYC gets a taste of some of the world's best theatre c...

I haven't been sticking to any one book lately, so this is going to be a mishmash-post. I have continued reading David's Revenge...

Which do you prefer? Actually, I prefer not answering either/or questions. Complexity and nuance is the name of my game so I hate question...

The Theatre du Soleil in Paris directed by Ariane Mnouchkine is, in my view, one of the most important theatre companies producing today. T...

Italian clown Roberto Benigni has created a charming film version of the classic story Pinocchio with one foot planted firmly in the Ita...

I have just begun Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection , billed as an existential mystery and structured, as the title announces,...

Follow-up to last week’s question: Do you keep all your unread books together, like books in a waiting room? Or are they scattered through...

A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book is one of those reading experiences where the last 25 pages makes a huge difference. You can re...

I am just pages away from the end of A. S. Byatt's latest novel The Children's Book . Technically, Byatt's writing skill has...

Give me the list or take a picture of all the books you have stacked on your bedside table, hidden under the bed or standing in your shelf...

I was glad to receive the surprise of an ARC of Hans Werner Ketttenbach's David's Revenge a week or two ago. It's put out by ...

Today's Science Times has an article by Benedict Carey about why unwanted or rude impulses seemingly arise at the worst possible tim...

I am half way through A. S. Byatt's latest novel The Children's Book . This is a vast narrative spanning art and politics over Q...

William Fiennes's The Snow Geese comes to a quiet and satisfying conclusion. The book is well structured - with Fiennes's pers...

Suggested by Callista83: Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoi...

The day's musings are by Frank O'Hara, not me. His warped angle was necessary to counteract all the rain and all the talk. This poe...

William Fiennes The Snow Geese reads like a contemplative travel book. His writing is precisely observant of the people he meets along...

A variety of activities at Bookeywookey central this weekend which all began with seeing the James Ensor show at MOMA . Who? I didn't...