Patrick Reardon

In his poem “The Hourglass. The Pebble. The Throne of God,” Faisal Mohyuddin ponders “the lightless language of elegy.”  His father is dead, and he is grieving.  And he wonders [...]

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City is Kevin Baker’s love letter to the city and the sport and the way they have intertwined for [...]

Some thoughts on re-reading Trevanian’s The Eiger Sanction nearly half a century after I first read it:   The thriller The Eiger Sanction was published in 1972 and quickly became [...]

There are two original sins in P.D. James’s 1994 Original Sin. One is central to the mystery.  The other is a mournful shadow of history. The story also features the [...]

Salman Rushdie’s 1990 novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories is joyous, inventive, delightful, funny, fun, enticing, stimulating, dazzling and playful. It opens with a sentence about “a sad city, [...]

Less than two years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was the victim of a stabbing attack that left him near death. His newly published nonfiction book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted [...]

The Book of Ruth is hardly a book, just four chapters, totaling a bit over 2,600 words. Nonetheless, the story is, writes Illana Pardes, “the most elaborate tale of a [...]

Wee Mad Arthur, terribly short and terribly powerful, is a funny character in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy Discworld which is a planet flat as a pancake and, so, pretty much by [...]