The Wisdom of the Myths (1/7/14)

by | Jan 13, 2014 | Book Reviews

This genial look at “How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life” from La Sorbonne philosopher Luc Ferry achieves a Herculean task: articulating what the Olympian gods teach us about the limits and virtues of mortality.

Getting Ahead

by | Jan 13, 2014 | Book Reviews

January 13: “I don’t want to be ignorant. I didn’t use to care, but I do now. I want to grow up ‘spectable.”  

Mandela’s Children

by | Jan 11, 2014 | Book Reviews

January 11: “The kids latched onto us before we could find our footing at the curb. ‘Captain! Master! Baas!’ they cried…. ‘We’re hungry, Baas!’ ”  

Report from the Interior

by | Jan 10, 2014 | Book Reviews

Young turk Paul Auster (the New York Trilogy) is now sixty-six years old, casting a nostalgic eye back at his New Jersey youth in the evocative, keen-eyed manner of his street-level fiction.