The Marrow Thieves By Cherie Dimaline
The Marrow Thieves By Cherie Dimaline The coronavirus sweeping the world is a disease with a much smaller mortality rate than many previous pandemics. Nevertheless, in the … Read more »
Book Reviews
The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People. William C. Morrrow.
The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People William C. Morrow Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1897. The nineteenth century is capped by monsters: Frankenstein in the beginning (1818) and Dracula … Read more »
A Hippie’s Bibliography
In 1974, Links Books published an interesting book entitled The Hog Farm and Friends, by Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and with a foreword by Ken Kesey. The Hog Farm, … Read more »
Pinocchio. C. Collodi
[This article originally appeared in High Points magazine.] Some stories are retold so often that they become part of our cultural folklore; eventually we are able to go … Read more »
Epic historical fiction you must read
[This image is of Javert, from Les Miserables. It definitely ranks in my personal top ten favorite illustrations of all time.] Both of our stores have an … Read more »
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. by Kate Wilhelm.
Can the world end without zombies being involved? It may be hard to believe, but just a few years ago, stories set in post-apocalyptic times did not generally … Read more »
Reading Our Presidents
Recently I had the occasion to read the diary of President James K. Polk. This was the first time I had ever read a book written by a … Read more »
Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham,
His family were refugees from Tibet, he grew up in India. The most interesting anecdote is from when he was a student monk in India. Curiously, in a … Read more »
The Resurrection of Maltravers. Alexander Lernet-Holenia.
An interesting book from Vienna, in which a decadent count “dies”, and then comes back to life. Rather than going back to his old life, he decides to … Read more »
A Legacy of Letters: An Assessment of Stanley Morison’s Monotype ‘Programme of Typographical Design’. Mark Argetsinger
This beautifully produced book by Michael & Winifred Bixler (2008) was originally written as an essay to be included in the 1999 Godine reissue of Morison’s “Tally of … Read more »