From Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad , translated by Michael Kandel: In an attempt to test out a new "bard machine": "Ve...

You know that feeling, when you read a book that someone has told you is brilliant? And you know to go in with low expectations, because obv...

This is from a few weeks ago, but still: Told. You. So.  Little is as frustrating as constantly being told that my generation doesn't re...

If there's one thing reading in Hebrew has taught me, it's the value of a properly placed footnote. Unlike English, where footnotes ...

This is an interesting and vaguely weird article about the potential death of the eReader . Yes, you read that correctly - now we speculate ...

Though I am a firm believer in the negative review, I can never pretend to like giving one. It gives me absolutely no pleasure to find fault...

What does it mean if the book I'm trying to read now lulls me to sleep almost every time I pick it up? I'm not reading it late at ni...

100% deserved .

John Williams is one of those authors I would not have been introduced to if not for book blogging. How could I fail to notice the universal...

Fun fact: I used to study German. For quite a while, actually. And quite willingly, too. This was no mere school language credit requirement...

Faïza Guène's first novel, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow  ( Just Like Tomorrow  in the UK edition) was an interesting and thought-provoking comin...

It's Banned Books Week again - censorship is still stupid. A wonderfully detailed and comprehensive essay on the excellent  Bring Up...

I don't recall where I first encountered Juan Gabriel Vasquez's The Informers , but at some point it stumbled across my radar. Mayb...

I have a book that's been sitting on my shelf for almost two years - an Israeli satire about book reviewing. I bought it for obvious rea...

A couple months ago, NPR hosted an online poll in order to create the " 100 Best Ever Teen Books ". Nominations flooded in, a list...

Philippe Claudel's Brodeck's Report  is one of my absolute favorite books from the past five years. It's a powerful, beautifully...

A few weeks ago I read the recently popular Divergent  by Veronica Roth. The book was mostly what I expected it would be - exciting and fast...

Grazia Deledda's novel  After the Divorce  doesn't seem to be all that popular, and I'm not sure why. Sure, the fact that it ...

The recent furor regarding Amazon book reviews being paid for frustrates me for a few reasons. Obviously there's my deep objection to th...

I read the absolutely amazing A Monster Calls  a few short weeks ago. Within a day of reading it, I had already gone back to it, reading it ...