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Off for a brief tour of the American heartland, including the places pictured below. I won't post as often as usual in that time, but w...

This is my first encounter with best-selling British writer Sebastian Faulks. So far his latest, A Week in December , reads like a restless...

Joseph Kanon has been compared to Graham Greene, and having just read The Good German I can see why. He explores moral questions in a c...

Good news! John Tierney has an article in today's Science Times on Matt Ridley's new book The Rational Optimist . Its thesis is t...

You may have heard that dolphins are the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom (aside from us brilliant creatures). They may be cu...

Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene is a readable account of how the reading brain works, as well as how it doesn't.  Given th...

So … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating it. It’s boring. It’s trite. It’s badly written. But … you’ve invested all this time...

Anita Brookner's The Debut was her's in the fiction world (she had written art history prior to writing fiction); it was as well my...

In anticipation of writing about Anita Brookner's precisely observed, and sardonic The Debut in the coming days, here is a Paris Review ...

William Trevor's new book Love and Summer is a wistful tale, redolent of lost chances. Its first third, as its characters are introduc...

From this day forward, you may only read ONE type of book–one genre–period, but you get to choose what it is. Classics, Science-Fiction, ...

Carl Zimmer has an excellent piece in today's Science Times focusing on the notion of deep homology in genes. Deep what, you ask? ...

I just came across two excerpts in Richard Dawkins's collection of science writing that reminded me what gives me pleasure about re...

Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key alternates two narratives, one set in 1942 as Paris's Jews are rounded up by their own polic...

Richard Bausch's new collection of stories, Something is out there. observes the strong passions of everyday life. I think his gre...

I was introduced today to the website Big Think . On it I discovered, among many treasures, this interview with philosopher Daniel Dennett ...

I wrote in my last post on Richard Dawkin's fine collection of science writing of hypothesis testing - a part of the scientific me...

I dipped into two fiction books this weekend, one Richard Bausch's new collection of short stories Something is out there. and the form...

Eating: Lately, my favorite Japanese restaurant has offered a warm mushroom salad atop greens that is to-die-for, as they say. Here are two...

I find that there is too little appreciation among the commonly educated person of what science does (as opposed to, say, the average un...