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The search for two halves of a torn text, lettered in a mysterious, forgotten alphabet on a piece of silk and dropped from the door of a mov...

Something recently prompted me to return to a childhood favorite, Mary Norton's The Borrowers , although I cannot for the life of me rem...

The folks at Edify Media were kind enough to send me an copy of Frank Cottrell Boyce's novel for young readers (8 - 12 says the marke...

It was Verbivore who alerted me to young Chilean writer, Alejandro Zambra, and his 2007 novella The Private Lives of Trees and I am glad s...

Hans Keilson wrote Comedy in a Minor Key over fifty years ago after emigrating to Holland from Nazi-occupied Germany. Keilson was a child...

The Hustle by Doug Merlino is about the socio-politics, economics, and personal drama of relations between blacks and whites in America. ...

Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any? You're kidding, right? How can you love ...

How much is enough? At its core, William Nicholson's The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life is about abundance. When I began reading t...

The past week has been a heavy one of studying for exams, writing papers, and school-related reading at bookeywookey. So I uncharacteristic...

A question much on my mind as I get ready to pack for vacation:When you travel, how many books do you bring with you? Has this changed sin...

What are you reading right now? What made you choose it? Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? I'm reading three books actively ...

I continue to dip into Richard Dawkins's impressive and diverse collection of science writing, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writ...

I have a thing for writers who understand the experience of those who do not fit life's molds, and who make that less-than-common exp...

Will Blythe in the New York Times Book Review thought it was "pitch perfect." Oprah called it a tour de force. Even Mookse a...

The 2008 film Summer Hours is all about legacy. It captures the lives of three siblings around the death of their mother, Helene, who was ...

I would like to draw your attention to Steven Erlanger's tender portrait in The New York Times of nearly 100-year-old Hans Keilson,...

English-born historian and travel writer William Dalrymple has spent 25 years writing about Asia, particularly India. His Nine Lives bemoa...

Just a quickie today to say, if you haven't seen the piece in the Science Times on clinician and researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier , ...

I just stared and stared at this painting at the stunning show currently on at MoMa - Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 . Exploring its...

As a working scientist, Stephen Jay Gould had a good deal of practice thinking about trends in the natural world in the language of statist...