The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

When my roommate moved out, I was worried that Mrs. Chen might increase the rent. I had been paying three hundred dollars a month for half a room. If my landlady demanded more, I would have to look for another place. I liked this Colonial house, before which stood an . . .

Barely scratching Chechnya’s war-torn surface

Marcus Warren reviews The Angel of Grozny by Asne Seierstad

The murky past of cleanliness

Judith Flanders reviews Clean: An Unsanitized History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg

Some talk of Alexander…

Tom Holland reviews Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman

Angola: Poetess Amélia Da Lomba Releases New Book Today

Angolan poetess and journalist, Amélia da Lomba announced for this Friday, here, the presentation of her new poetry book entitled "Sinal de Mãe nas Estrelas ( Mother's Sign in Stars)".

Book Reviewing lingo

Most of us will probably agree with Bob Harris, The New York Times, when he says that Out of laziness, haste or a misguided effort to sound “literary,” reviewers use some words with startling predictability. [extract from The New York Times - Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing], even the ones that belong to this breed.

This could be the explanation of why the article is so popular, receiving 215 comments (at the time I am posting).

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Politicians are humans, really

Amanda Craig reviews One of Us by Melissa Benn

The rich, full life of Bill Deedes

Charles Moore reviews The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes by Stephen Robinson

The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas

Chapter One: Josephine's Debts

We were never meant to read

William Leith reviews Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

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