Death Is Not the End by Ian Rankin
How much credence do you give to a dust jacket description of a book? Allow me to quote the cover flap description from Death Is Not the End: For readers unfami...
How much credence do you give to a dust jacket description of a book? Allow me to quote the cover flap description from Death Is Not the End: For readers unfami...
Lest readers of this blog think I am simply a book geek, let me assure you I am a geek in a whole range of subjects. When I am not sitting at home reading books...
I am very sad this morning as I just found out C-Span is canceling Booknotes: In announcing the cancellation of “Booknotes” — C-SPAN’s p...
Back in May I received a review copy of the Michael Henry Heim translation of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. After finishing the short work, I didn’t pos...
I don’t have anything particularly profound to add to the discussion of Checkpoint, NYTBR under Tanenhaus, and Leon Wieseltier’s review, etc (see he...
Here are a few interviews I have run into as I attempt to catch up on my surfing after having been out of town for a few days. Some you might have already noted...