The House of Pride and Other Stories of Hawaii by Jack London:

The London Book You Didn’t Know Existed

A Tale of Two Crazies

A comparison between Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted and Elizabeth Wurtzel’s…

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The new, and always highly acclaimed Haruki…

John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America

Books Reviewed

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Books Reviewed

Literary Paris

Cafes, Bookstores and Graveyards

For the late summer doldrums: Books about escaping into the natural world

Scientific American authors’ recommended summer reading

Daniel Chamovitz, author of What a Plant Knows: A Field…

Gone Girl: The Movie? Meh.

Will Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn make a good movie? We’ll find out come…

The Age of Miracles

A Book Review

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in…

Literary Iceland:

Sagas and Poeticians