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Two qualities are evident in Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table right at the outset. The book involves the memory of a writer named...

I learned of German, Weimar-era novelist Irmgard Keun from a post by Bookslut about a New York literary event on the subject of her life ...

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always...

As avid bookish folk, I thought you would like to know about the following: Writer Sarah Salway author of the novel Tell Me Everything , ...

At a recent party of a friend I will call Radio Woman, the Ragazzo and I met two wonderful writers - Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman . Del...

The Middle East may at times seem a small and distant part of the world, but with a land area only slightly smaller than the U.S., a populat...

This is the second book I have read in as many weeks in which the writing was a sheer act of will, the other being Joan Didion's A Year ...

Jane Gardam's post-World War II coming of age story, The Flight of the Maidens , features three very different young women who share th...

I went on a quest a week or two ago to try to discover what it is about Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking that makes ...

Acerbic critique of Robert Trivers's new book on evolutionary biology Deceit and Self Deception , by Jenny Diski in The Guardian this ...

I am a huge fan of Laurence Cossé's A Novel Bookstore , so I was delighted to stumble across her 2003 novel An Accident in August at o...

Noise, Bart Kosko, tells us, is unwanted sound. In everyday life we might use the word to describe the car alarm we hear blaring off the st...

A twenty-something man meets a bold and unusual woman named Clara at a christmas party and a spell was cast. For the next week they spend h...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flo...

I've been seized by a bout of non-fiction reading. I was going to claim this was a rarity for me, but that's really not true. I ha...

And then it happened. The biblical prophecy came true, or at least partly true. People disappeared, millions of them at the same time, all...

Do you carry books with you when you’re out and about in the world? And, do you ever try to hide the covers? Are you kidding me? I carry ...

The Emperor (1978) was Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's first book. It is a distinctive blend of political writing, razor sharp ...

Eating: Fresh tomatoes, anyone? With mozarella and basil, with vinegar and sardine salad (sardines, Dijon mustard, chopped cilantro, and li...

I received Molly Keane's Good Behavior as a prize for my participation in the First Annual Anita Brookner Day (thank you, Thomas ). Th...