Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
April 19, 2025
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2008
March 17, 2025
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
March 16, 2025At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
March 3, 2025Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
Murdering Miss Austen
February 16, 2025Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
December 30, 2024Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
December 27, 2024Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...