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Eating: Sweet potato, red pepper, black bean salad w/ cilantro and a lime jalapeno dressing. It seemed to be a hit at Thanksgiving. Here...

The long holiday weekend gave me a clean apartment, enough left-overs not to cook for a week, and a chance to catch up on old New York Ti...

Three very important words: new Richard Powers. A writer who just can't stop writing about how what we know makes up who we are. A ...

If you have enjoyed any of the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations of the great Russian novels as I have (I have yet to r...

Installment #3: Eating: Delice de Bourgogne - It's a triple-creme cheese. Buttery, nutty, mushroomy, with a little tartness. It's ...

Today’s question was suggested by Barbara : Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of th...

I had my introduction to Ward Just's work with his newest novel, Exiles in the Garden , just a few weeks ago. That book made enough of ...

Suggested by JM :“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter ho...

Benedict Carry reports today in the Science Times on recent research into the role of dreams by Dr. J. Allan Hobson of Harvard. Drawing on...

I'm slowly working my way through two novels now, whenever I can catch a moment. Having read Margaret Drabble's recent novel, Th...

I said this would be an occasional series. Here's installment number 2. What's new for me in: Eating: Dark chocolate with chili, c...

Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can ...

I had yet to read a book by Ward Just before picking up his latest, Exiles in the Garden . It is set in Washington D. C. and concerns Al...

Suggested by Jennysbooks: Something I’ve been thinking about lately: “What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/p...

I received a review copy of the re-issue of of Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Tattoo last week . Serpent's Tail press has reissued sev...

I'm going to institute an occasional series - Novelties, I think I'll call it. About once a month I'm going to list a new thing...

If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be? I would ask Anton C...

Nicholas Wade reports in today's Science Times on the work of Dr. Gero Miesenböck's lab . Its carnival-barker headline cries: Res...

The Victoria Vanishes was a funny, smart, and satisfying mystery, containing Christopher Fowler's trademark detective team - Bryant a...

After all that noble stuff in my last post about my great weeding habits (I sound like Elmer Fudd) I must now report that it is all bunk. ...