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Books are dying, the print medium is dead, goes the hysterical rumor, and it's Amazon that is killing them.  Well, they are alive and ...

I had felt enough of the influence of Isaiah Berlin on contemporary political thinkers and writers who I like to read, that I wanted to kn...

Daniel Kehlmann is a popular German-born writer living in Austria.  With Measuring the World (Quercus, 2007) he has taken the biographies...

Our part of New York City was relatively spared from serious Hurricane effects.  Our electricity stayed on, we had some downed trees, the ...

Tochtli is a precocious seven-year-old, although he protests otherwise, who lives in a palace with its own zoo and is obsessed with hats, ...

Alcohol addiction,heroin addiction, incest, your father's public humiliation of your mother - seems a small price to pay for unconscio...

If you read Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking , in which Didion, through writing, relentlessly observes herself in the act of g...

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), has received some strong press and the prestigious Prix Goncourt.  The author...

It was Sam Ruddock's review that led me to Chris Adrian's The Great Night , an unrestrained hooplah of a novel that re-imagines S...

It seems that my vacation reading brought an unintentional spate of novels built on the autobiographical form.  In most ways, What is the ...

What is the What is the first of Dave Eggers's books I have read.  It is distinct and unusual.  It tells the harrowing story of Valen...

Before taking off for points east, I read The Art and Politics of Science a sciency memoir by Harold Varmus, whose Nobel Prize-winning wo...

We're back. The Ragazzo took way better pictures than I did.  But here are a few of mine from a walk on the Sussex downs, a view of Ljub...

Friends and new acquaintances, we're off to points east for a little bit - a late vacation.  Below are the pix of our destinations.  The...

Following my enjoyment of Alec Guinness's 1995-6 journal My Name Escapes Me I couldn't help launching directly into his journals ...

There has been a bevy of books examining wider aspects of culture as they intersect with brain science written by scientists in the past y...

In preparation for watching the recent film version of John Le Carre's  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , I got the 1979, 6-episode, made...

The excellent Daniel Mendelsohn, sings his creed at Page-Turner on the job of a critic.  (The title for this post is his formula, not mine....

In the waning days of summer, I have been energetically immersed in reading, but not so inclined to write.  I can probably blame it on all t...

Some snowy poems as an antidote to the dog days of summer.  Jamie Olson writes informatively on the dissident form and ordinary content in h...