The Noir series from Akashic Books proliferates, as cities around the world inspire writers to set tales of crime in them. Long into the s...

Tá Lena agus mise in Uladh anois. Thug muid cuairt go dtí ár mac is óige ina Colaiste na Bhaird ina Stáit Nua-Eabhrac ar feadh ag deireac...

I figured, despite the difficult content, that hearing these lectures on audiobook might ease their delivery. I like Terry Eagleton's w...

“Sure the mammies pushed us all into it.” Early in John Boyne’s novel, Father Odran Yates blurts out this explanation to the Archbishop o...

The first half of this massive 2007 study by a Canadian philosopher has appeared as Gifford Lectures , the prestigious Scottish series wh...

Very straightforward. In 120 pp. of text, this London-based medieval historian applies her knowledge to chapter 1's overview of a time...

The Western world's "progression towards a culture of reason" over a thousand years, between classical decline and colonial ...

Nancy Marie Brown, who knows the Icelandic and Norse sagas well in the original, is an ideal and enthusiastic chronicler of the modern ba...

A "microbiography" of the poet's pivotal year of 1386, Chaucer's Tale reconstructs his situation as he entered a mid-li...

Beidh mé i nDakota Thuas aríst go luath. Chuir mé cuairt mo priomh-turas an bhlian seo caite. Bhí sé ina Deireadh Fomhair, fós. Cén fat...

What happens to a belief in a doctrine once those who teach that try to sidle past it, in hopes of moving on? For purgatory, the Catholic ...

This book meets the needs of advanced students who need a introduction to this topic. Richard Kieckhefer specializes in medieval belief sy...

Last entry, I reviewed Paul Kingsnorth's deservedly acclaimed, if harrowing and relentless, novel The Wake . Evoking by a "shadow ...

Schoolchildren, in a more Anglocentric era, used to know "1066 and all that." While fewer today may remember that year and the mom...

While still best known internationally for her Booker Prize-winning 1997 novel The God of Small Things , Arundhati Roy has taken another ...