Shortstoryreader

Generally, if there is more than one book on a subject and one is written by one person and the other is an edited collection, I will choose to read the former before I bother with the latter. The advantage with an edited collection is that one gets different perspectives on a topic. But there's also something nice about a single sustained argument. Occasionally, an edited co...

I'm a bit surprised sometimes by what manages to make it to best-seller lists. This is one of those books. Le Carre is no easy reading, engaging as he does in some high-end literary techniques. And what's left after all of it are a number of open-ended questions to ponder.

Usually, this is just my sort of balliwick, but I guess I was looking for something more absborbi...

This short volume covers more-recent material that I've read elsewhere. Even so, there was some information here that I hadn't previously run across.

Boyd starts with Julius Caesar's order to found such “public” libraries, which Boyd really does call “public,” even though other sources make clear that the way we think of public libraries is not the same as Romans though...