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I am a fan of Ward Just's writing - reflective, masculine fiction that often spans the lives of its central figures, exploring how the l...

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure is a tragedy, heavy with the inevitability of the great Greek plays. Jude Fawley is a poor man whose l...

Memory Book by Howard Engel, in which detective Benny Cooperman awakens in a rehabilitation hospital unable to read but not to write ( ale...

I first learned of Howard Engel in A Man of Letters, a chapter in Oliver Sacks latest book The Mind's Eye, about a man whose stroke lea...

I have always enjoyed Oliver Sacks's vivid, humane portraits. He is a doctor/author who has always managed to write about people instea...

Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Maching and the Quest to know Everything concerns itself with the stunt planned by IBM to program a computer to p...

When Ora's son Ofer decides to stay beyond his required military service in the Israeli army to serve in an important military mission r...

Shirin is a 12th-century poem of the Persian people, telling of the great love of King Khosrow for the Armenian princess Shirin. Some see ...

Shaun Tan , an Autstralian artist, and a prolific author of picture books, created The Arrival , a graphic novel which beautifully evokes th...

Before the narrow, dark tunnel that is trying to complete a Ph.D., the breadth of my interests used to be more regularly reflected in what I...

Carl Zimmer has an excellent post today on George Williams , a little known evolutionary biologist who made some important additions to our...

Given that classes have started up and the books I'm reading are all on the large side, I haven't finished anything this week, but I...

I am a big fan of Nicole Krauss's The History of Love . Reading it catapulted me into reading something else of her's immediatel...

In 1943 Italian chemist Primo Levi, a Jew, was captured by the Fascist Militia and eventually transported to Auschwitz in 1944, where he som...

I am not following the current path of many of my colleagues in the book blogosphere, reading only books from my existing TBR pile for a des...

I had only ever heard of Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, which I assumed (wrongly) to be some sort...