Peter Ibbetson
Alison Brown
Kirsti Potter
Charles Degar
Conscious And Verbal book by Les Murray
Conscious and Verbal: Poems 1996-2000 signals a change in the verses of poet Les Murray. While traces of the man…
The Death of Vishnu book by Manil Suri
Manil Suri’s first novel, The Death of Vishnu, is a mélange of social commentary, romance-novel lust, the mundane, the comic,…
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline book by Richard Posner
The first task facing Richard Posner in Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline is to find a way to define…
Does America Need a Foreign Policy? book by Henry Kissinger
Even before the events of September 11, the world was by no means an unexciting place. Slobodan Milosevic was stirring…
More, Now, Again book by Elizabeth Wurtzel
When Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27, she published the best-selling Prozac Nation, a memoir of her struggle with depression. On the…
The Future of Life book by Edward O. Wilson
Environmentalism is a large-scale lesson in sacrifice. Each time conservationists compel us to grudgingly concede a patch of land to…
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White book by Frank H. Wu
It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Yale. I am attending one of the accompanying lectures when a graduate…
The Procedure book by Harry Mulisch
In the beginning, Harry Mulisch created The Procedure. And though it sounds much like a John Grisham paint-by-statutes legal thriller,…
Swift as Desire book by Laura Ezquivel
I was able to finish Laura Esquivel’s latest novel only because I loved her previous one, Like Water for Chocolate,…
Silence in October book by ens Christian Grondahl
The longing for emotional connection and the difficulty of transcending individuality are central themes of Silence in October. The narrator,…