From This Side of the Pond, Cambridge University Press' Blog Samuel Beckett’s letters are full of the literary names he encountered through his w...
Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.04.2011
I confess to liking, collecting, sharing and savoring both mysteries and thrillers. My favorite sleuths are, like me, flawed and curious in an often dark, confusing and fallen world.
Maegan Carberry | Posted 07.24.2011
I am having a hard time coming to grips with whether I will ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In some respects, I believe a good book finds you at the exact moment in your life when you need to read it.
The Wall Street Journal | THOMAS SPENCE | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was a young boy, America's elite schools and universities were almost entirely reserved for males. That seems incredible now, in an era when he...
Lancaster Eagle Gazette | Posted 05.25.2011
Well, that's one of the most-read first-lines to come out of the Fairfield County District Library. As one of the library's most-read titles, "Chicka ...
Democrat and Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
Getting teens to pick up a book can be tough, especially during the summer months when school isn't in session. So in an attempt to get more students...
The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011
The 85km of shelving in the Vatican's Secret Archives holds manuscripts and publications accumulated over more than 800 years. On the day of his visit...
PBS | Jessa Crispin | Posted 05.25.2011
If we're going to do this, if we're going to "make do," and "do more with less," then we are going to need better inspiration than the guides they han...
New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011
The president and his daughters have books to keep them company; they bought two bags' worth at a bookstore here over the sunny weekend....
Flavorwire | Caroline Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011
As James Joyce once wrote, "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." Sweet, right? While we'd agree that ...
Posted 05.25.2011
A Dog Day's Reading List The Poetry Foundation Five small press poetry books hot as the sun by Justin Taylor Nobody knows exactly how many books of...
The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011
2010 has already been a strong year for fiction lovers, with new novels by the likes of Joshua Ferris, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Lionel Shriver, Jennif...
The New Yorker | Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011
The summer reading that colleges assign to their incoming freshmen is too easy, too liberal, and too contemporary. So says a recent report from the Na...
Pam Allyn | Posted 05.25.2011
We are all looking for ways to enter new worlds, and the combination of summer and books can make that happen for children of all ages. Here are some summer reading suggestions.
Vice Magazine | Miranda July | Posted 05.25.2011
I read the milk container while drinking orange juice out of the bottle, holding the refrigerator door open with my body. A better thing to read about...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011
All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.
Posted 12.20.2011