My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...

Double Cross – By James Patterson
February 25, 2025I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
February 25, 2025Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
February 25, 2025"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
February 25, 2025By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
February 24, 2025By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...





