in lieu of a field guide

If I would recommend my favorite reads of the year, I would go for the ones that grow in stature in my mind. Out of the forty-odd books fr...

"El consejo de los dioses" in Konseho ng mga Diyoses; Sa May Ilog Pasig (El Consejo de los Dioses; Junto al Pasig) by José Rizal...

I read 42 books this year, lower than last year, which is lower than the year before that. This is the lowest since I started counting (and...

Contempt by Alberto Moravia, tr. Angus Davidson (New York Review Books, 2004) Riccardo Molteni decided to write down his memories of ...

In The Character of Rain , translated by Timothy Bent, Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb had a gifted toddler-age girl already speaking a...