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A capsule will have to suffice for this entertaining read on multiple generations of English ex-pats in Hong Kong.  This is the first nove...

I'm a fan of Dave Eggers clean, mission-infused writing from having read What is the What , a fictionalized biography of one of Sudan...

I have enjoyed Michael Frayn's plays and memoir, so I was excited to find his Skios on the table at my favorite bookstore.  It is bil...

Nora Eldridge, the narrator of Claire Messud's new novel The Woman Upstairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) , is a school teacher and a duti...

The 1989 civil overthrow of Soviet rule in Eastern Europe was one of the most influential revolutions of recent history, and feels somehow...

Director, Margarethe von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa made Rosa Luxemburg, a film about the life and politics of the provocative soc...

Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy is a love story, or more than that, a connection story.  The story of a connection bet...

There have been three film adaptations of The Great Gatsby that I know about: The 1949 film starring Alan Ladd, The 1974 film with Robert...

Andre Aciman is a contemporary voice of longing - longing for home while in exile, longing for lost love.  I really enjoyed his Eight Whit...

On Sheila's recommendation I saw Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st recently, starring Anders Danielsen Lie a triple-threat: mus...

Over the last ten days, I attended the annual conference of the International Society for Autism Research, in San Sebastian Spain, where I...

Headed to points east for a conference and a couple of days of relaxation.  Be back soon.

I was surprised by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close .  Though predictably sentimental, the persistence of a young boy who is probably o...

If you're looking for another Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go , that is not what you're going to find in Kazuo Ishiguro...

Clifford Odet's 1948 The Big Knife takes a big slice out of old Hollywood.  A movie star needs to decide if the studio will own him o...

I know Tristan Sturrock's work as a talented member of Kneehigh Theatre , which did, among other works, a brilliantly inventive theatr...

Now nearly 80, neurologist, writer, and keeper of the cabinet of human curiosities - Oliver Sacks - has written his 12th book.  This one i...

The 1970s was the heyday of a certain kind of American movie which stressed gritty, real performances, scene writing that jumped into the...

In the maelstrom of dissertation and article writing, I have been getting seriously behind here at bookeywookey.  You wouldn't know it...

Much Ado About Nothing is certainly the most amiably nihilistic play ever written and is most appositely titled....With every exchange b...