2021, Vintage Charlotte gave me this book for my birthday after we decided to visit the Nissim Camondo Museum in Paris for the same...

Published 1894 "I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so, more content coming soon," that was in 2019. Call me the...

2020, St Martin's Press In the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd in May 2020, preacher Michael Eric Dyson wrote of his...

Dear older generation, Young adults are depressed at the state of the world. It's been a rough few years with the pandemic, and now the...

1982, Flammarion Around the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I saw Ivan the Terrible staring out at me ominously from the cover...

2008, Editions Tallandier Like Anne Frank, Hélène Berr kept a journal during the Nazi occupation of her city; both died in the...

I Aucun de nous ne reviendra, 1965 II Une Connaissance Inutile, 1970 III Mesure de Nos Jours, 1971 Charlotte Delbo was arrested in 1942...

Stickeen, an essay by John Muir 1909, Houghton Mifflin I discovered Stickeen (read here) in a book of American essays of the 20th...

1940, The Hogarth Press Special thanks to my friend for this review. I am reading Virginia Woolf’s biography of Roger Fry, the art critic...

A book about Ukraine during WWII and a song by a Ukrainian refugee today. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 2002,...

Yesterday I got my hair cut short. After seeing a photo of myself looking pretty good with bangs, I convinced myself it could work again....

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars 2020, Faber & Faber These five women, Virginia Woolf, writer and publisher; Dorothy...

2011, Riverhead Books Meghan O'Rourke recounts the loss of her mother who was only 55, and the long grieving process which followed....

8 March, 2022 In honor of International Women's Day, The British magazine, The Economist, has chosen Malala Yousafzai as the first guest...

March 4, 2022 In honor of World Book Day, Becky, Yvonne and I, with 4 other book lovers, made flowers out of books at Bill & Rosa's Book...

2009, Vintage In this memoir dedicated to her late husband Richard Wyatt, Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, The Night Falls...)...

1960, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London French version title: Il Fait Beau a Paris Aujourd'hui, 1985 Jo lent me this autobiography of the...

2011, Orbis Books In his introduction to this unique and profoundly important book about a particular aspect of racism in America, the...

The Yale Review, June 28, 2021 I met the poet Sarina Romero through friends, and we recently had the pleasure of talking together about...

1972, BBC, Penguin Books Ltd Looking through some old college papers recently, I found a photocopied excerpt of this book about the...