Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Book Review: Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
September 12, 2025In a neat reversal of the Reynard myth, the students at a school that molds young...
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Book Review: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
September 7, 2025Filled with unsettling images and language, Alois Hotchnig’s newly translated collection is an uncomfortable journey, but...
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
August 29, 2025The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Book Review: How I Lost the War by Filippo Bologna
August 25, 2025Yet in Federico’s town, pools are pumped and wells are closed. They remove centuries old trees...
Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
August 23, 2025Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he...
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
August 23, 2025All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...




