Riding on the Storm

When I think of the collective works of American literature (and by American here I mean the U.S.) only a handful come to mind as indisputab...

Justine was something of a rarity for me, a genuine classic recommended by a friend that I came across fairly late in life (in my late forti...

(Please see my article, "A few More Inconvenient Truths," about Alan Turing and the Universal Machine, as a companion piece to thi...

The impression many readers have of Walter Scott is that he is a dull writer; and it's true that his prose seems at first unapproachable...

"I tell my sorrows to the stones..." "I tell my sorrows to the stones..." These chilling words from Shakespeare's...

A Stunning Meditation On The Human Experience This novel is simply the finest novel ever written. The themes are universal, to a degree t...

Hat's Off To Mo Yan! The first thing that struck me in reading this novel was just how well it translated into English. My experience...

In contrast to the gloomy title of the book, "Dead Souls," is actually a whimsical, if twisted romp with one 'Chichikov,'...

Below is a review that I wrote for the CD "Fado Tradicional" by the internationally acclaimed Portuguese fado singer, Mariza. The ...