1998, Faber and Faber This dramatization of the arrest, imprisonment and banishment from England of writer Oscar Wilde for homosexual...

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...

1999, Simon & Schuster The New York Times Book Review (see cover image) compares this book's style to the "lonesome pathos" of Hank...

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...

February 2, 2022, The New York Times I know it's never too late to follow your dreams, but this young author thinks it's never too soon...

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...

2016, Penguin Random House Summer 2021: While waiting for my delayed plane, I am trying to post quickly before I forget the details of...

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...

Happy New Year 2022! Last year, I asked which book you would take if you were banished to a desert island and could only take one? Here's...

1869 In 2019, I posted War and Peace, one of my favorite books of all time, with just one sentence promising I would "complete this post...

First published 1878 Thank you for your answers to the survey question: What comes to your mind first when you think of Anna Karenina? ...

If I say: Anna Karenina, the novel by Leo Tolstoy; what is the first word or short phrase that comes to your mind? (Even if you haven't...

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...