Christopher Morley’s Parnassus on Wheels is a delightful novella about two oddballs who fall in love over […]
The Same Old Story, by Ivan Goncharov
I used to joke that prozac, if invented before 1800, would have wiped out the […]
Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
Like many of his other books, Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is about the (eventual) triumph of good […]
A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster’s 1924 classic, A Passage to India, is a bitingly caustic look at race relations […]
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Originally published in 1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck delivers a problematic (for oh so many […]
Uncollected thoughts about Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
I’ve had Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, on my brain for weeks, so I figured […]
Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
“I would prefer not to.” I’ve seen this phrase all over the bookish internet: on […]
The Vatican Cellars, by André Gide
Why do we behave the way that we do? Psychologists would argue about nature versus […]
Emma, by Jane Austen
This month’s resolution read actually fit two categories. I’ve read Emma, by Jane Austen, before. I […]
The Golovlyov Family, by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
At the end of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s biting satire, The Golovlyov Family, the narrator meditates on the […]