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 [...]
About five years ago, I read two books that knocked my socks off — the exquisitely evocative Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and that massive, epic, beautiful whale of [...]
A time in America By Patrick T. Reardon “Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum.” — Johnny Cash, [...]
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 [...]
Workingman’s blues #7 By Patrick T. Reardon Remember that story the Greeks used to tell about five runners, each on own path, with news of Crete — the one [...]
Two sisters, both around thirty, sit uneasily across from each other in a restaurant — Sarah, wife, mother, seamstress, and Glennie, an obstetrician-gynecologist married to her career. Six years ago, [...]
What, no sociopaths? Well, A Coyote’s in the House is, after all, a book for children. But, above all, it is a novel by Elmore Leonard who specializes in stories [...]
La Japonaise By Patrick T. Reardon She’s large for a small woman when you turn the corner at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and there she is, in [...]
