Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
The latest addition to my website is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. This is one of those books (too many, I am afraid) that I should have read long ago but…
The latest addition to my website is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. This is one of those books (too many, I am afraid) that I should have read long ago but…
Looking for a cheap book? How about this one? With shipping, it will cost you a mere $1 billion. If you one of those cheap people, you can get Beeson's…
The latest addition to my website is Norah Lange's Norah Lange: 45 días y 30 marineros [45 Days and 30 Sailors], yet another Latin American novel that has not been…
Bookfinder published a list of the Top 100 most sought after out-of-print books in 2012and a fairly grim list it is. I have read three - the Paul Gallico when…
The latest addition to my website is Milena Ercolani's Figlie della luna [Daughters of the Moon]. It is not a novel but rather a collection of short stories, nominally linked…
The latest addition to my website is Rafael Chirbes' Crematorio [The Crematorium]. Like La larga marcha [The Long March] and La caída de Madrid [The Fall of Madrid], this one…
The latest additions to my website are two Anne Enright novels. The first is What Are You Like?, an earlier novel. Frankly, this story of two young women looking for…
The latest addition to my website is Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy, one of the funniest books I have read in a long while. It is very politically incorrect, featuring…
I have just returned from two weeks in Burma, where I saw the biggest book in the world (see photo at left). Other sites of literary interest included the Nationa…
The latest addition to my website is Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity. This made some best-off lists for the end of last year but not enough. The fact…