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The Talisman Ring 25 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
One of the great pleasures of my life — and probably yours too — is making exactly the right book recommendation to someone. It’s not as easy as some people think it is. You can’t just love a book and...
Truth 25 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
Truth, by Peter Temple, is an Australian police procedural that revolves around a teenager found murdered in a state-of-the-art, extremely high-security, extremely high-priced apartment building and c...
Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 24 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
I know a lot about World War II from the scholarship I do. I’ve read a tremendous amount of history and literature about it, especially from the French and German perspectives. Before this, though, I’...
White Noise 21 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
Words, pictures, numbers, facts, graphics, statistics, specks, waves, particles, motes. Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen som...
Hamlet, Revenge! 15 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
I can’t believe it’s been nearly three years since I read the first of Michael Innes’s Inspector Appleby mysteries. I found Seven Suspects entirely enjoyable and entertaining, and as I said in my othe...
The Shahnameh: Sekandar and the Succession 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The second half of the Shahnameh begins with the story of a king who, instead of being descended from the Persian royal lineage, came from the Rumi (foreigners — in this case the Greeks) and conquered...
The Shahnameh: The First Kings through Rostam 13 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Every summer for several years now, I’ve tried to reserve some time and space to read one or two Really Long Classics. This summer, after reading Gogol’s Dead Souls (which wasn’t actually very long), ...
Angel 12 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
In my recent review of Good Behaviour, I noted that I admired the book more than I enjoyed it, partly because I couldn’t bring myself to care about the characters. When it comes to characters, caring ...
Eleanor and Park 11 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
Park noticed the new girl at about the same time everybody else did. She was standing at the front of the bus, next to the first available seat. There was a kid sitting there by himself, a freshman. ...
Good Behaviour 10 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
This 1981 novel by Molly Keane starts with the ending, in which narrator Arron St Charles serves her elderly and ailing mother a dish of rabbit, even though she always gets sick when she eats rabbit. ...
