Meditations cosmiques (The Bench of Passing Time, Cosmic Meditations, not available in English) 2017, Editions du Seuil Montreal-born...

February is Black History Month. Here are 15 books to read during Black History Month and beyond.

The Innocence Project, USA fights to exonerate the wrongfully incarcerated who are serving long prison terms or on death row for crimes...

2021, First Mariner Books Uncommon but evidently not impossible to publish a book under no name, in Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, this...

2008, Little, Brown Julia recommended this book after reading it for her law class Meanings of Motherhood: Legal and Historical...

1911, Hachette (La Vie de Tolstoï) The French writer Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944), a mentor and favorite of Stefan Sweig, wrote this...

2021, Constable Below is a note I wrote on author Chris Paling's blog. He kindly sent a return note, but for now, here's just mine, with...

2012, Hudson Street Press Summer 2021 Yet another book found this summer in the beach condo, the main take away for me: scientific...

The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist 2018, Doubleday Dear Readers, my New Year's Resolution is to post all my backlogged books and...

Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen 2010, Faber and Faber Ltd Summer 2021: Quickly before my memory fades. I'm waiting in the...

The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland 2005, W.W. Norton & Company "A superior work of...

Originally published 1990, Three Penny Review Yvonne read this essay by Amy Tan (author of The Joy Luck Club) and shared it with...

2015, Pushkin Press (new English translation) Written between 1914 - 1941, the essays in this collection are mainly a call for European...

translated by Anthea Bell 2015, Pushkin Press Have you seen the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, or the Wes Anderson film The Grand...

2020, HarperCollins I think I'm being, as usual, quite overly optimistic thinking I can do this post before boarding my plane in about an...

1942, Williams Verlag 2013, University of Nebraska Press Translated by Anthea Bell In this autobiographical text which has been called...

Bella Figura: How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way 2018, Bloomsbury Journalist Kamin Mohammadi is overworked, overweight and just...

Read this book! My neighbor lent it to me following an across-the-rose-bushes discussion about topics ranging from the search for a...

Gale Cengage Learning, 1992 My physical therapist, a big fan of relationship books, told me all about this one while massaging my...

2020, Melville House Publishing Hello readers, as you can see I'm not exactly up to date. I would have liked to published this Ruth Bader...