Riding on the Storm

I've been looking forward to reading this book for a long time. This and "Homage to Catalonia" are two of Orwell's books ...

This book came to me highly recommended, but I was tempted to give it less than two stars. Somehow I did find my way to the end of the thing...

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...