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Save the Story: a review of an inspired idea as well as The Story of...
“Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation.” The idea for this series sprang from Alessandro Baricco’s mind working in...
View ArticleThe Adventure Time Encyclopaedia
Hunson Abadeer (aka Lord of Evil, aka the Nameless One, whose unnameableness makes the junk mail of eternity undeliverable) has kindly compiled, written and painstakingly edited this priceless,...
View ArticleStill Life with Bread Crumbs, by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen is a New York Times bestselling author, and the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Her newest novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, has an interesting premise. It...
View ArticleThe Virgins, by Pamela Erens
Bruce Bennett-Jones is starting his last year of high school at the Auburn Academy boarding school when he sees Aviva Rossner for the first time. It is the start of the 1979 – 80 school year and Bruce...
View ArticleSigned, Sealed Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing, by Nina...
Nina Sankovitch, author of the highly acclaimed memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magic Reading, has decided to explore the art of corresponding by letter in her newest book. She has...
View ArticleEvent, by Slavoj Zizek
In Penguin’s Philosophy in Transit series, four leading philosophers have been tasked with discussing brand new ideas that challenge the reader to pause and contemplate the idea of transit. Using...
View ArticleThe Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku
In The Future of the Mind, Michio Kaku (author of the hugely impressive Physics of the Future and Physics of the Impossible amongst other popular science titles) provides an always interesting and...
View ArticleMom & Me & Mom, by Maya Angelou
When Maya Angelou was just three years old, she was sent, along with her older brother, to live with her grandparents in the town of Stamp, Arkansas. This decision was taken following her parents’...
View ArticleThe Dark Horse, by Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden’s The Dark Horse has been published to celebrate the one year anniversary of the addition of children’s books to the marvellous Virago Modern Classics list. Godden was a prolific author...
View ArticleAn Episode of Sparrows, by Rumer Godden
Several of prolific author Rumer Godden’s novels have been recently reprinted to celebrate the one year anniversary of the addition of children’s books to the Virago Modern Classics list. The foreword...
View ArticleInsurgent, by Veronica Roth
Insurgent is the second book in Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, the first of which is about to be released as a major film. The sequel to Divergent was first published in 2012, and both books have...
View ArticleThe Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
On the American public radio show This American Life, produced by WBEZ Chicago, there is an episode called Somewhere Out There (#374) where host Ira Glass talks to David Kestenbaum, a physicist turned...
View ArticleGive Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, by James Lasdun
British author James Lasdun is a professor at the New York State Writers’ Institute in Albany. Give Me Everything You Have is his riveting and at times rather terrifying account of how an attentive...
View ArticleHow Should a Person Be?, by Sheila Heti
It’s been three days since I finished How Should a Person Be? and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Like a modern-day On the Road, it’s sprawling and playful, expressing the hopefulness,...
View ArticleWe Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars is one of those books that is made to be gulped down in one sitting. From the moment I sat down to read to the moment I reached the last page I was completely enthralled by E. Lockhart’s...
View ArticleA Hilltop on the Marne: An American’s Letters from War-Torn France, by...
A Hilltop on the Marne, which was first published in 1916, presents a far-reaching account of Mildred Aldrich’s experiences during the First World War. Aldrich, a retired American journalist who worked...
View ArticleA Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin
The first time I bought this book was from a newsstand between the top of the escalator and gate 7 at Bush International in Houston. It was a soporific. I was out cold almost before we were off the...
View ArticleEnlightening Symbols, by Joseph Mazur
As the subtitle says, this is “a short history of mathematical notations and its hidden powers.” So yes, it’s primarily for nerds (full disclosure: this category includes me). There are both...
View ArticlePuck of Pook’s Hill, by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has left a plethora of fantastic writing behind him, ranging from his moralistic Just-So Stories and his beautiful and far-reaching collection of poems, to his delightful work for...
View ArticleRilla of Ingleside, by L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside is number 619 upon the Virago Modern Classics list, and is another addition to the children’s literature which the publishing house is introducing to a whole new generation of...
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