Ar moch ar maidin inné, chuir báisteach sé. Bhí ach an h-am gearr ann. Mar sin féin, dith muid é anseo. D'imigh mé amuigh a cur uisce...

Born Kurt Eric Suchert, this half-German writer castigates his losing side, as the Allies "liberate" Naples in 1943. Their new I...

I have enjoyed all of Michel Faber's fiction, from sly fables to his eerie alien-on-Earth examination as Under the Skin to his triple...

I like post-apocalyptic novels, and after reading the previous reviewers' responses, all over the map, pro-and-con, to this ambitious...

I reported on my first round of tea tasting with twenty samples from Upton Tea Imports in mid-April 2011 here . A year later, I bought twen...

London epitomizes the Victorian city. It doubled in population between 1800 and 1850, and this growth spurt was witnessed by its most famo...

This clever book celebrates diarists, letter-writers, and journal-keepers who, day by day as chronicled here, add over two hundred of thei...

Learning French, even for a middle-aged Francophile, proves elusive. Its infamous pronunciation, its maddeningly gendered nouns, its elisi...

Fuair Taffy bás amach ar feadh an tseachtaine seo caite. Féadfaidh tú ár Corgi Phembróc in earrach seo caite anseo. Bhí maith leis a suí c...

Harry Patch, World War One's last surviving British veteran, was asked what he would tell young people. Defining war as "organise...

While academic articles have scrutinized the range of religious observance behind bars, and while popular culture capitalizing on this mil...

A product of the golden age when California's postwar public schools were ranked first in the nation, now a writer of children's b...

In the title essay, the Megaphone Guy struts in, sets up his amplified bray, and his listeners find themselves unable to carry on the...