The other night I slammed the brakes on a film—something I rarely do, but this one managed to be both ...
The recent obits for Dmitri Nabokov, only child of notorious novelist Vladimir Nabokov, got me thinking about posthumous publishing. As ...
Artist Brian Dettmer approaches books with knives, tweezers, and blade-sharp ideas about the meanings of media and information. For over ...
An impulsively warm day has me craving a springy read—something literary to match the weather, falling into step with that ...
Prompted by the great responses to the earlier rundown of names I’d never give my kids based on the literary ...
Get the fantasy place cards ready! We’re back around the Dinner Table in the Sky, imagining which writers, living or ...
David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas is one of those books you love all the more because the worlds it ...
Among the ways I’m grateful to have been introduced to David Mitchell’s novels, one is that I had no preconceptions ...
Blame it on Pippi. Early exposure to the pigtailed Longstocking and her fabulously ramshackle Villa Villakulla hooked me on stories ...
I suspect we all have a list of names we would never give our children, even though they sound unobjectionable ...