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When the Ragazzo and I were up in Kent,Connecticut to get married, we came across a little bookstore (fancy that). The woman behind the cou...

I used to be good about writing down where I heard about a book so that when I wrote about it here, I could give credit where credit was due...

It's been a couple of weeks since I have been able to either write here or make my usual rounds of friends in the blogosphere. I've...

I really have no business being here, as I'm in the middle of writing a final paper on depression, hence the parade of cheerful books, ...

William Styron is best known as the author of the novels, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice , books about moral respons...

Four things, courtesy of Thomas , his changes in red. Four Jobs I Have Had in My Life Seller of typewriter ribbons and office supplies on th...

Penelope Fitzgerald's The Gate of Angels might be called an intellectual romp, a flirtation of ideas. It's one part English novel ...

Sinclair Lewis is an American writer best known for Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth, Elmer Gantry, and Arrowsmith , but he authored 22 novel...

On July 16th Anita Brookner, author of 24 novels, turns 83. Thomas and Simon have decided to celebrate with an event named just for her: ...

Nathacha Appanah's The Last Brother is a novel of a tender memory that Raj, an elderly man from Mauritius, has of a Jewish refugee his...

Claude Steele's Whistling Vivaldi is an excellent new work of social science for the lay-reader about how stereotypes impact the perfor...

Tom called Robert Ford's The Student Conductor one is his 10 best neglected literary classics. That and the classical music theme wer...

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...