I Read You Loud and Clear

In 1941, Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old, living with her family in Long Beach, California.  Her father, a successful and domineerin...

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann is a fictionalized account of the career of C. W. Pabst, the famous Austrian director of...

I revere Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography titled The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, and the...

First published in 2002, The Perfect House by Witold Rybczynski is pure pleasure.  Rybczynski is now an Emeritus Professor of Urbanism (who ...

This pleasurable book contains Mary Barnard's translations of 100 of Sappho's poems and fragments, together with a brief and lively ...

Donna Leon's brief, charming paean to "the sleek, mysterious gondola, the boat whose name and image are inextricably linked with th...

Donna Leon was born in Montclair, New Jersey, but lived in Venice for over 30 years.  She is best known as the author of the Commissario Bru...