Book Review: Only the Stones Survive
/In Morgan Llywelyn's latest novel, the gods and goddesses of ancient Ireland take center stage
Read MoreThree Weeks in Europe!
/Our book today is Three Weeks in Europe by John U. Higinbotham, a gem from 1904 sub-titled “The Vacation of a Busy Man” and aimed squarely at the hectic modern world with its breakneck pace: Most books of travel state that you should give three months to Florence, for example, but map out a three […]
Read MoreBook Review: The Lives of Frederick Douglass
/A stimulating new study of the autobiographies Frederick Douglass continued writing throughout his life
Read MorePrice-hikes and Lookalikes in the Penny Press!
/The New Year in the Penny Press started out for me with a nasty little shock. Despite bungling my subscription paperwork to such an extent that I get two copies of every issue of the New Yorker in the mail ever week, I had occasion shortly after the year began to buy a copy of […]
Read MoreMystery Monday: The Lady Agnes Mystery!
/The further back in history they go, the more inventive mystery writers have to be if they want their sleuths to be women. After all, the crime-solving detectives must not only go down mean streets in search of evidence but also be able to deal with the sordid types they find there – and they’ve […]
Read MoreBook Review: The Gun
/A young man out for a nighttime walk in Tokyo finds a gun. Then he thinks about it all the time. Then he thinks about getting bullets for it. And then he thinks about firing it ...
Read MoreJanuary 2016 TBR!
/Our books today have (mostly) not yet appeared in bookstores – they’re a selection of titles coming up in January of 2016 that, for one reason or another, I’m eagerly anticipating. As some of you will guess, I’m a big fan of the sub-culture of YouTube known to its inhabitants as BookTube. It’s mostly filled […]
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Doomed
/Now in paperback: a densely-packed graphic novel in which Superman slowly becomes his worst enemy
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