Xmas Book Guide
It’s the time of the year when instead of much deserved calm and peace you feel the anxious pressure of sending out cards in time, trying to figure
Anti-Black Friday Booklist
Black Friday isn’t the cheerful day American retailers set up with the jolly intention of easing your holiday shopping. Stories of fights, injuries
To The Lake
At the time of writing this article, the world is in its second year of the Covid-19 pandemic. A quarter billion tested positive and five million peop
The White Album
What might seem excessive is in fact only reasonable. There is no plot, the narrative is broken into a collage of impressions and facts, and it isn’
Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
The first story, after which this book is named, is a ludicrous circus romance between a Thin Man and his Fat Lady, who are 'more or less the ultimate
The Committed
The novel opens with les boat-people, a belittling term under which Vietnamese fleeing from occupied/liberated (depending on whom you are speaking to)
Why I am not Going to Buy a Computer
Back in the 1980s Wendell Berry argued that he does not need a computer to write, despite everyone around him saying so.
How to do Nothing
When someone announces on social media that they are going to take a break from it, we no longer smirk. What seemed funny and pretentious just a few y
The High House
This April it’s Jessie Greengrass and The High House, which tells the tale of a small group trying to survive in a flooded holiday village in Englan
Eat a Peach
David Chang is a charming egomaniac, and his book Eat a Peach is a testament to his career as a chef...
