Year: 2004

Here’s the chat with Kevin Wignall wherein he reveals he has read epic German poetry. In addition to being a superb writer, he’s a nice guy. CM: hav...

I suppose it should come as no surprise that biographers use their subjects lives and work as a forum for their own opinions. Some biographers accomplish this i...

Part history, part cultural commentary, part political analysis, and part diehard sports fan evangelism, How Soccer Explains the World is an interesting and tho...

Here literature’s weakness – that, unlike philosophy, it is unsystematic – becomes its great strength. It draws on all our ways of knowing at ...

"That was the last thing he felt, because Ben Hatto had just become a statistic in a subgroup almost entirely his own, seventeen year old boys killed in their o...

Since literature may become a spectator sport it might be worth taking a moment to scan the playing field. Many of the fans who’ve wandered into a booksto...