I'm currently reading Primo Levi's "The Periodic Table" and an odd thing has occurred - I find myself wanting to discuss ...

A couple of months ago I read the splendid "The Master and Margarita", by Mikhail Bulgakov . For those who haven't read the bo...

If you think you've heard of all the literary prizes, here's an interesting one for you: the head of Tel Aviv University's liter...

Robert McCrum at the Guardian decided to tackle the "myths" of literary culture : Myth One: We are uniquely afflicted by cultural...

I just read this interesting article from Publisher's Weekly (hat tip, Conversational Reading ) that, following the new Kindle DX, foun...

Now it's apparently the Kindle DX. I've seen one reference to the DX as standing for "deluxe" but I can't remember whe...

It'll be hard to top this : it sucke And for the record, "Germinal" is an excellent book.

Following the recent announcements regarding this year's Pulitzer winners, the Guardian wrote up a piece about the poetry winner , WS Me...

This is already old news (though ever relevant), but I wanted to let it sink in a bit before I tackled the issue. About a month and a half a...

Who knew this still existed ? Some objections led to the removal of ["The Kite Runner"] from library shelves, while others saw it ...

Amazon has responded to complaining customers with an official statement: This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a comp...

I'm still not sure what to make of this, but so far, here are the details: Amazon.com appears to have removed many GLBT oriented books f...

For a bit of library humor, check out Unshelved.com .

I was reading the article about James Patterson the other day over at the Guardian. I started it feeling a bit annoyed and ended it feeling...

Problem - Stress. Solution - Read : Reading can reduce stress levels by 68 per cent, according to the University of Sussex research... Subje...

I'm not much of a poetry fan or poet, but there's a charm to reading poems every once in a while. Literature seems, somehow, to incl...

"Richard K. Woodward", reviewing Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" (edited out slight spoiler, otherwise c...

I few months ago, I posted some thoughts on Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London", a book I thought deserved more than ...

Two weeks ago, I read the interesting if somewhat lacking Economist article about online book reviews. It's got some important points b...

Many of the books I read are translations from other languages. I think almost everybody reads a lot of translations, after all. Some of the...