The theme of bad books versus bad readers runs through my recent publication Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, which I ...

And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...

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The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

The Mehta Boys captures this complex dynamic with a raw, unflinching honesty, which is also perhaps the most striking element ...

Cats have long held a special place in human society, captivating our imaginations with their mysterious behaviors and enigmatic charm. From the ancient Egyptians to contemporary authors and artists, ...

Saunders, one of my favorite contemporary authors and — more importantly — a Corralitos resident, holds an X-ray to a collection of short stories from the most famous of 19th-century Russia’s literati ...