"Cheating Rumors Fly About The Bachelor 's fiancée": this pops up as I log on to type this. Why do Jake and Vienna spark headl...

Cleachtaim, ag síul a dhéanamh go rialta. Bím ag dul leis an muileann coise. Mar sin féin, bhí mé dúil an lá eile ag imeacht faoin tuatha an...

This reminded me of a post-Holocaust Kafka, combined with Joycean wordplay, Pynchonesque ideas, and Beckettian melancholy. The words derived...

If you wondered where the sniggers in Chaucer lurk, read on. It started on Friendster as a fakester, a grad student's "pop culture ...

Calmly, non-dogmatically, this explains how not anti-religious so much as pro-naturalist stances can define a more positive version of athei...

Lively, crafted with care, engagingly detailed, paced smoothly, this reads as if invented rather than fact. In 2006, Steil enters Sana'a...

Never thought I'd be interested in insurance, but my wife likes Boyd and urged this on me. He has a knack for getting you intrigued by w...

Another book on James Joyce, but a necessary one. For David Pierce combines thirty years of teaching Joyce with forty years of reading him. ...

A critic strives to reconnnect ordinary readers with a book meant for, and about, the rest of us. His colleagues strangle Ulysses in theore...

June Gloom in L.A. lured me to the Huntington, one of my favorite places. Unlike many here, I prefer gray skies. In a few days the weather w...

A mass-market epic romance combines philosophical radicalism (Spinoza's secularism), political upheaval (Dutch rebellion against the mon...

Labhrófaí focail eagsulaí mar amharc os cionn ag teacht ina dhiadh sin fearthainn. As Gaeilge, d'inseofaí faoi radharc leis ceithre rogh...

At eighteen, this drop-out joined the Dalai Lama. In Dharamsala in the early 1970s, he entered "an intact pocket of modern Tibet,"...