I’ve heard good things about Jim Crace for the past few years; friends have told me he is an author I would enjoy, so I decided to take a look at his latest novel, The Pesthouse.
It’s the...
Browsing through the sublime West Village bookstore, Three Lives & Company, last month, I came across Stoner, a recent addition to the superb New York Review of Books Classics Series. I made a...
...As Dekalb’s boat entered New York City’s harbor surrounding the Statue of Liberty, it looked like simple tourists were visiting the site, but up close these tourists were looking for someone to...
...Snudge is the exiled Royal Intelligencer of Cathran and now has begun to write the story of King Conrig. Cathran is one of four kingdoms on the island of High Blenholme and a young Conrig dreamed...
...You know you have really gotten into a historical fiction novel when after reading it you are thinking in the dialect of the characters. Such a thing happened to me recently after reading an...
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