Look around an Eastern-themed gift shop or Asian-inspired garden and you may see a benevolent, rotund and inevitably smiling Buddha. Impo...

This anthology reminds me of the belletrist, when a newspaper or magazine could afford to host an erudite raconteur to relate his likes an...

This musician-writer-professor revels in wit. His pair of The King of Good Intentions novels enlivened the indie-rock scene in Los Angele...

I wanted to hear about Tolstoy, as well as listen to some of his classic works, long or short. Simon Parke's Conversations with Leo Tol...

Robert Whitfield in the audio's 128 minutes gallops through Paul Strathern's  Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes . Whitfield channels Strathe...

One blurb lauds the "hilarious" content herein. It's brief, compared to that bent on a harrowing evocation of the titular h...

This genial set of ruminations reminds me of what were once called "bull sessions." You'd stay up late with a pal who'd r...

Regarded as the best of his many novels in English, this is the most widely known and the one which made his reputation and secured for hi...

" I liked Anthony Heald's nuanced dramatization of the easily stereotyped Elmer Gantry a few years ago, when I was listening to Si...

Recorded exactly a year after another Manchester band's dramatic post-punk debut, "Shot By Both Sides" by Magazine, had influ...

  I am reviewing the Audible version read by the always elegant Simon Vance. The audiobook's performance, as usual by Vance, is excelle...

This Florida-based historian bases his investigation of the supposed supernatural in Nazi Germany on archival research, vast documentation,...

Despite his persistent mumble, his habit of gulping whole paragraphs, the elegant prose style of Christopher Hitchens graces this very unev...

Sebastian Barry, in six previous novels (as well as his play The Stewart of Christendom ) takes inspiration from his family members, past ...

For all the attention given Icelandic music, scenery, and travel lately, its translated literature lingers in fourth place, at least. A co...