I am a sucker for a snappy book cover, and the cover for Paul Auster’s new novella, Man in the Dark, is about as snappy as I’ve seen in a long time. […]
Enlightenment in the Darkness—Review: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Review: This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
“War means fightin’, and fightin’ means killin’,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest once said. While that might seem like a statement of the obvious in the context of the American Civil […]
WordsDay: Last Woman Standing—Review: Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Once known as “The Dark Continent,” Africa boasted a romantic reputation to Westerners as an unknown place of mystery and intrigue. The moniker still holds true today, although for a different reason: […]
WordsDay: New Shakespeare Play—Review: All the World's a Grave by William Shakespeare (sort of)
For a guy who’s been dead for nearly four hundred years, it’s pretty amazing that Shakespeare is still cranking out the hits. And I’m not talking about great productions of his classic […]
Scroguely Works: The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, first published November 1966, completed 1940, 384 pages, ISBN 978-0679760801 “… who are you then?” “I am part of that power which eternally wills evil […]
