Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books and stories that have gone on to find new life in the form of movies, television shows, theatrical...
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Ah, poetry. An art form long associated with rhythm and rhyme, truth and beauty, and, for some of us, a bewildering “I don’t get it” kind of awe. But pain?...
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Consider Kurt Campbell, a veteran Asia hand and an early skeptic of the decades-long elite consensus that aiding China’s economic growth and enmeshing it in the U.S.-led world order was,...
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John arrives on the island, and, exploring on his first morning there, falls off a cliff. The story is simple after that: Ivar finds and cares for John; as John...
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SOMEHOW: Thoughts on Love, by Anne LamottAnne Lamott is a national treasure who, at age 70, is putting out not books but throw pillows with embroidered mottoes and little tassels....
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The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz, edited by Ben MazerCome with me, down the rabbit hole that is the life and work of the Brooklyn-born poet Delmore Schwartz (1913-66). There...
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Why care about a pile of old book reviews? Hitchens’s didn’t sound like other people’s. He had none of the form’s mannerisms. He rarely praised or blamed; instead, he made...
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Over the years, my wife and I have been blessed with 15 cats, three rescued from the streets of Brooklyn, three from barns near our home in Vermont, one from...
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THE title of this little book might put off many who would benefit greatly from reading it. Passions of the Soul might seem remote from the concerns of contemporary Christians,...
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What books are on your night stand?“Rough Around the Hedges” by Lish McBride and “Teach Your Own: The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning With Children at Home” by John...
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