1940, The Hogarth Press Special thanks to my friend for this review. I am reading Virginia Woolf’s biography of Roger Fry, the art critic...

2007, Portobello Books Ltd This is the first novel I've read by Chris Paling, who I discovered through his more recently published A Very...

2012, Editions Stock The only reason I'm including this book, which I didn't finish, is to note an experience of the author's which gave...

A book about Ukraine during WWII and a song by a Ukrainian refugee today. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 2002,...

Yesterday I got my hair cut short. After seeing a photo of myself looking pretty good with bangs, I convinced myself it could work again....

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars 2020, Faber & Faber These five women, Virginia Woolf, writer and publisher; Dorothy...

2011, Riverhead Books Meghan O'Rourke recounts the loss of her mother who was only 55, and the long grieving process which followed....

8 March, 2022 In honor of International Women's Day, The British magazine, The Economist, has chosen Malala Yousafzai as the first guest...

March 4, 2022 In honor of World Book Day, Becky, Yvonne and I, with 4 other book lovers, made flowers out of books at Bill & Rosa's Book...

2009, Vintage In this memoir dedicated to her late husband Richard Wyatt, Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, The Night Falls...)...

1960, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London French version title: Il Fait Beau a Paris Aujourd'hui, 1985 Jo lent me this autobiography of the...

2011, Orbis Books In his introduction to this unique and profoundly important book about a particular aspect of racism in America, the...

2019, Sourcebooks Have you heard of the blue-skinned people of Kentucky? Or the Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project? I hadn’t until my...

2008, Simon & Schuster I vowed to read no more books until posting all the backlogged ones, but I cheated with Olive Kitteridge, a story...

The Yale Review, June 28, 2021 I met the poet Sarina Romero through friends, and we recently had the pleasure of talking together about...

2017, Persephone Books 1980, Simon and Schuster, Jonathan Cape Sue gave me this book after reading it herself; being a kindred reader...

1972, BBC, Penguin Books Ltd Looking through some old college papers recently, I found a photocopied excerpt of this book about the...

Meditations cosmiques (The Bench of Passing Time, Cosmic Meditations, not available in English) 2017, Editions du Seuil Montreal-born...

First published, 1963 First English translation, 1966, Peter Owen Publishers I discovered this beautiful, eerie, tale by chance in a...

February is Black History Month. Here are 15 books to read during Black History Month and beyond.