Stories By Jascha Kessler
China
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 24, 2026It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
July 24, 2026The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
July 23, 2026One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Movies
Who is Rita, What Was She?
July 20, 2026Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Fiction Reviews
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 5, 2026Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Books
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
June 29, 2026Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
June 25, 2026And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 18, 2026It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Crossing Styx
June 10, 2026What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
June 5, 2026I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...




