The Lighthouse at Alexandria

Paul Gerhardt was already a familiar name before I went for a walk around the Nikolaiviertel (St. Nicholas Quarter) here in Berlin, around 2...

In the quest to find books from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for my reading journey around the world, I stumbled across The Laughing...

It may be a passage from the end of an essay by Henry David Thoreau that I have not fully read ("Walking," from the 1850s). It may...

It was on National Public Radio's list of the best books of 2024, so I've just finished reading  The Antique Hunter's Guide to M...

In March, I finished the books All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong and Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer, and felt sati...

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s  was published this year by the American presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodw...

Thanks to anaemia, a traffic accident, and a broken glass bottle, I've been (in roughly equal measures) sulking and reading at home. An ...