Riding on the Storm

This novel was well researched and clearly written by an author steeped in the deep complexities of the Byzantine Age, but I had a real pro...

I cannot give the author enough credit for writing such an enlightening account of the life of Hypatia based upon such limited historical re...

A Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus It has been perhaps three years since I've read The Stranger, but the book left an indelible...

A review of Light In August by William Faulkner: In "Light in August," Faulkner achieves the highest standard of prose I have r...

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...