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When last we left our hero Paul Marron, he had overcome a disastrous fashion mis-step and gone back to his roots, as it were, to find renewa...

What better way to end the week than with yet another lavish, happy list of book-recommendations? Our sub-genre is once again that of my bel...

Our book today is George Gissing's 1894 novel In the Year of the Jubilee (referring of course to the Golden Jubilee in 1887, marking Qu...

When last we checked in on our chisel-cheeked hero Paul Marron, he'd done the seemingly impossible: he'd bounced back completely - a...

Once again, I got emails - of a far less welcome kind this time, but book-bloggers can't be choosers. Many of you wrote in response to m...

According to the calendar, at least, autumn  approaches (in Boston in the last week of September, it's 85 degrees with the humidity hove...

I made my faithful way through the main attractions of the latest Harper's in order to reach the end. I read about evil Mormons, and I ...

Our book today is Emily Neville's 1963 Newbery Medal winner, It's Like This, Cat , the lean and quirky and utterly touching story of...

Our book today is Michel Tournier's great, grim 1970 masterpiece, Le roi des Aulnes , translated into English in 1972 by Barbara Bray wi...