After two references on a podcast that I recently discovered and love, Shedunnit, and a […]
Miss Buncle’s Book, by D.E. Stevenson
I started listening to Backlisted this week, a British podcast featuring authors and scholars talking […]
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (translated by Philip Boehm) walks the fine line between fiction […]
Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie
The best laid plans of murderers oft gang agley—especially when Hercule Poirot happens to be […]
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
By Sunday of this last week, I had read 100 pages of John Steinbeck’s opus, […]
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
Graham Greene’s masterly novel, The Quiet American, is the kind of novel that I find impossible not […]
The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I picked up The House of the Seven Gables, one of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s best known […]
Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin
Originally published in 1929, Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin, has been newly translated by Michael Hoffman and […]
City Folk and Country Folk, by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
The divide between country and city is a popular trope in Russian fiction (at least […]
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Young adult literature has changed profoundly over the past century and a bit since Little Women, […]