Necromancy Never Pays

I came back from France thinking that Wallace Stevens, lover of things French and Floridian, might have a poem that would provide a good ope...

Like most other novel-reading folk, I enjoyed Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost, so when I saw his new one--written in the ...

Because we feel all smug and superior that we haven't overscheduled our lives as much as other people (well, a few--yeah, there are some...

I feel sorry for Christopher Buckley's new novel, Supreme Courtship, because it follows Boomsday, which is his masterpiece. Supreme Cour...

When I go to a party and someone asks what I "do" and I tell them some variation on "I have a PhD in English and try not to w...

Last spring I went into a bookstore and a book on the shelf caught my eye (the cover looks like an explosion). When I stopped to read the ...

Last night, later than I meant to stay up after the spectacular lunar eclipse, I finished reading Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid ...