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Please use a link below to download an ebook of posts selected from over the last seven years of this blog.  This is the second collection a...

This selection does not include those books I enjoyed , that asinine dilution poured into innumerable books of the year lists, though I enjo...

Lascaux , a placename standing for the abyssal revelation of the cave paintings discovered there after millennia in darkness, and Notebooks ...

I give thanks to Ryan Ruby for his review of Lessons , Ian McEwan’s latest novel. It brings to our attention that rare thing, joy of joys, a...

Although we are unmusical, we have a tradition of singing     Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk The first reason to celebrate Shelley...

Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact occur. I used this line, apparently from Bo...

The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back, not to secure a yes or a no, but to keep ...

Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and ha...