Category Archives: Books & Authors
May 2019
- 2019-05-17 － “Well-run societies don't need heroes"
October 2018
- 2018-10-08 － Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
July 2018
- 2018-07-27 － The Mediterranean
December 2016
- 2016-12-20 － Death of the Roman Republic and Birth of the American One
- 2016-12-15 － Founding Fathers
- 2016-12-08 － Rubicon, Cicero
April 2016
- 2016-04-14 － 1453 the Book
April 2015
- 2015-04-14 － "Wolf Hall" Reading Notes (1)
- 2015-04-12 － Hilary Mantel and Her "Wolf Hall"
- 2015-04-09 － Reading David Mitchell
- 2015-04-08 － Michael Crichton's "Travels"
January 2015
- 2015-01-16 － "Lawrence in Arabia" - a Mesmerizing Read!
November 2014
- 2014-11-15 － Amazon vs. Publishers, Little Fish vs. The Whale?
October 2014
- 2014-10-09 － Green Apple Books and Music - 2nd Store
March 2014
December 2012
- 2012-12-13 － Joseph Kennedy, 'Patriarch' of An American Dynasty
- 2012-12-10 － Chairman Mao's Great Famine
June 2012
- 2012-06-16 － Euro Crisis
January 2012
- 2012-01-11 － "Genius..., is supremely normal."
July 2011
- 2011-07-29 － The Dragon Wakes
October 2010
- 2010-10-16 － Recent New Yorker Articles
March 2010
- 2010-03-23 － Staring into the Abyss - Reading "Too Big to Fail" by Sorkin, And A Couple New Yorker Articles from March'10
August 2009
- 2009-08-27 － Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery
- 2009-08-17 － of Human Bondage
- 2009-08-10 － Writer's Room and Its View
- 2009-08-01 － Bloodshed vs. The Cuckoo Clock
July 2009
- 2009-07-26 － Chilly Summer
May 2009
- 2009-05-09 － Rebecca West: "The Court and the Castle"
April 2009
- 2009-04-26 － Mysterious Force At Work
December 2008
- 2008-12-29 － 2008 - Books and Movies
- 2008-12-04 － Shuttle, Paul Theroux, and The Reader
November 2008
- 2008-11-03 － Cities and Ambition by Paul Graham
October 2008
- 2008-10-12 － Autumn in San Francisco
August 2008
- 2008-08-06 － Strong Opinions
July 2008
February 2008
- 2008-02-29 － Stagflation and Ben Bernanke
- 2008-02-20 － Library Stairs!
January 2008
- 2008-01-03 － 2006 Movies and Books
- 2008-01-02 － 2007 Movies and Books
December 2007
- 2007-12-20 － Coetzee's New Book
November 2007
- 2007-11-26 － Web Form Design Best Practices
- 2007-11-06 － New Yorker Articles: Chocolate, Classical Music, and a Historian
October 2007
- 2007-10-15 － Random New Yorker articles
- 2007-10-03 － "That Heav'n would want spectators, God want praise..."
August 2007
- 2007-08-04 － Spy: Old and New
June 2007
- 2007-06-17 － Sunday Afternoon with Maugham
- 2007-06-10 － Green Apple Seed and Park Life
- 2007-06-01 － Michael Ondaatje's "Divisadero"
February 2007
- 2007-02-18 － A Magazine that Reads Like a Book
January 2007
- 2007-01-02 － The Street - Leonard Cohen
September 2006
- 2006-09-28 － FreshAir: Murder in Amsterdam
August 2006
- 2006-08-06 － Neural Theory of Language
July 2006
- 2006-07-22 － Things that You Learn at a Shuttle Stop
March 2006
- 2006-03-10 － A MIND IN CONNEMARA
December 2005
- 2005-12-02 － One Billion Customers
- 2005-12-02 － Paul Theroux "The Best Year of My Life"
October 2005
- 2005-10-01 － "Smoke and Mirrors" - A Geek's Book
August 2005
- 2005-08-16 － Forgetfulness - by Bill Collins
- 2005-08-14 － Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion
May 2005
- 2005-05-31 － Closure of Wessex Bookstore
- 2005-05-13 － The Perfect Day by Alice N. Persons
April 2005
- 2005-04-13 － The Success and Failure of Picasso
March 2005
- 2005-03-02 － Voltaire's Garden
February 2005
- 2005-02-10 － Today is Boris Pasternak's Birthday
- 2005-02-01 － "A Poison Tree" - William Blake
January 2005
- 2005-01-21 － Poem: "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe
December 2004
- 2004-12-21 － For Another Six Months: Harry Potter 6
October 2004
- 2004-10-18 － Today's Writer's Almanac
September 2004
- 2004-09-06 － Indian Summer Reading Notes
- 2004-09-02 － I, Claudius (Cont'd)
August 2004
- 2004-08-24 － I, Claudius
- 2004-08-04 － Writer's Almanac
July 2004
- 2004-07-29 － The Writer's Almanac
- 2004-07-16 － Life's Cards - White Oleander
- 2004-07-08 － The Third Man - Graham Greene
June 2004
- 2004-06-29 － Oracle Night - Obsession With A Blue Notebook
- 2004-06-22 － The Lovely Bones
May 2004
- 2004-05-13 － Earth Your Dancing Place
- 2004-05-09 － Happiness, Promise, and Beauty
- 2004-05-03 － Reading Time...
April 2004
- 2004-04-06 － Poem: "Rain Travel," by William S. Merwin
March 2004
- 2004-03-05 － Random Encounters
December 2003
- 2003-12-05 － particleboard particles
October 2003
- 2003-10-20 － The Stone Woman
- 2003-10-08 － A Paragraph from The Old Man and Me
September 2003
- 2003-09-09 － THE SURROGATE by TESSA HADLEY
August 2003
- 2003-08-14 － The Zanzibar Chest
- 2003-08-03 － The Emperor of Scent
July 2003
- 2003-07-16 － Evil is insolent and strong...
- 2003-07-02 － Harry Potter and Nemo
June 2003
- 2003-06-20 － The City of Clowns
- 2003-06-05 － The Ending Is Hard
- 2003-06-02 － Nabokov's Strong Opinions
- 2003-06-02 － The Obscure Object by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2003-06-01 － Middlesex