Chuir mé cuairt ar na hÉireann coise tinne go Maigh Nuad dhá bliain ó shin. D'inis mé faoi é anseo . Ar feadh Oíche Shamhna, chonaic m...

After Colin Thubron's "To a Mountain in Tibet" reminded me of this account, I read it with pleasure. As an expat American livi...

This very accessible narrative carries wide appeal. With so many eager to learn more about the Dalai Lama, this popular, yet well-research...

If you've read a few books by (or interviews with) the Dalai Lama, much of his message here's familiar. Rather than a drawback, th...

With my interest in what happened before the Big Bang, Buddhism, and ethics, I figured this short book might prove a welcome counterpart t...

Rather than stick to a notion that escaping the city, fleeing from making a living, and eluding the relationships to pursue and bills to p...

"If you say yes, I will hit you thirty times. If you say no, I will hit you thirty times" will repeat often. Here's the type...

The core message here's "proceed at your own pace," that is, take what works and leave the rest, and to "question what ...

Bím ag cloisteáil leabhair eagsulaí faoi deireanach ann. Nuair ag tiomáint, éist mé go éisteo-leabhair difríulaí. Téann mé go mo h-áit na ...

This was recommended to me as a scholarly but accessible introduction. While considerably advanced compared to other primers, Gethin expla...

This lively look at how fonts fight to be noticed, even as we look right through them into the content they embody, depicts their tension ...

Harrowing and bewildering, in the best sense, this German thriller kept me up late three nights. It's not for the fainthearted, more fo...

Joe, a struggling salesman, reasons that his job deals with people as they are, not how they want to be. He fails in selling the Encyclopa...

Sentences collapse; commas convey rapid, wry, ironic dialogue. Paragraphs expand into rushes of anger, bewilderment, frustration, and ...

Reminiscent of the raw, magical, harsh parts of Mark's Gospel, this novel imagines the son of man, Jesus born of Joseph as he finds hi...