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Monday, September 15, 2025

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ’s August 1914 is the first volume of his The Red Wheel cycle of novels an epic attempt to explain how Russia slid ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Review of In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In the First Circle by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sharpens the vast world of his Gulag Archipelago  into the story of one vile aspect of a ho...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Virgil Got Eternally Screwed: Review of Dante’s Purgatorio (Mark Musa Translation)

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Dante’s Purgatorio , in contrast with the fire and fury of Inferno and Roman splendor of Paradiso , is the canticle of hope. It is the most...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald ’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges thro...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Man Called Intrepid: How Intelligence Kept Britain Alive in World War II

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  William Stevenson ’s A Man Called Intrepid tells the story of Sir William Stephenson , the Canadian who became Britain’s intelligence ch...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Talking Electric Cars in a Rural Massachusetts Restaurant

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  I'm in Providence RI for the week.  My wife is at a math conference. I am riding and visiting friends here and in Boston.  Yesterday I...