by bertbaby | Dec 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
An annual rundown of books as diverting as they are thought-provoking.
by bertbaby | Dec 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
A Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction Book of 2013: Quebec sleuth Armand Gamache ventures to a secluded village over Christmas to decipher how one of the world’s most famous people in Earth has disappeared, and why only a crazed local poet knows how to find...
by bertbaby | Dec 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
A Barnes & Noble Best New Non-Fiction Book of 2013: The motives, passions, and intimate diaries of the most important woman in Chinese history are revealed in this stirring biography of rebellion, antiquity’s arrival at modernity, and international love and...
by bertbaby | Dec 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 11: “Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise — they are what they are.”
by bertbaby | Dec 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
This newly translated work of a forgotten and high-minded European intellectual garnered advance publicity aplenty, thanks to the involvement by literary light Jonathan Franzen, who finds in Karl Kraus’s work the template of our own disaffected age.
by bertbaby | Dec 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
The second short-story collection from Laura van den Berg delivers seven immaculately crafted tales concerning a welter of unusual women and the notably relatable lives they lead.
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