Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is a mesmerizing look at Army life in WWII. Mailer tells the story of an Intelligence and Rec...

This is the first time I've participated in Teaser Tuesdays, but I am going to try it. It seems like a good way to make me think more ...

Quality beat out quantity last week, with only two books making it to my Mailbox Monday list. But both additions are pretty exciting, at l...

English author Anthony Powell (pronounced like "toll" not "towel") was born in 1905. He was educated at Eton and Ba...

Based on a true story, The Fixer is the story of a Russian Jew who, in the early 1900s, is unjustly accused of murdering a Christian boy....

. "'Let's go to the top.'" -- Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak. I just finished reading Malamud's ...

The Booking Through Thursday theme this week is "Recent Funny," which asks the question, "What’s the funniest book you’ve ...

The National Book Foundation awards annual prizes to American authors in the following categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and You...

Judgment Calls is a pretty good first effort from the daughter of legendary mystery writer James Lee Burke . Like her heroine, Samantha...

In April 2003, the BBC's Big Read began the search for Britain’s best-loved novel. Viewers voted for their favorite book until Dece...

Only two books came into my house last week, which is probably a good thing because, at the rate I had been going, I would have to live t...

Four brothers, twin sisters, a father with minor league baseball in his blood, and a Bible thumping mother form the story skeleton of The ...

We are right about in the middle of the Sunshine Smackdown -- Battle of the Prizes Challenge. As a reminder, this challenge pits Pulitzer...

The Booking Through Thursday theme this week is "Preferences," with these instructions: "Which do you prefer? (Quick answe...

How exciting! Bookforum today mentioned and linked my Internet Review of Books review of Wall Street by Steve Fraser.

"From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running so...

Reading one of Elinor Lipman's novels is pure pleasure that makes you think. They are witty, intelligent stories of modern manners th...

Mailbox Monday was looking like it was going to be a very short post, since Julie & Julia was the only book that came into my house fo...

"In the early 1980s, when I was still going steady with Jim Beam straight-up and a beer back, I became part of an exchange program be...

Fawcett Boom's After Dinner Speaking is a short, practical book published in 1991. I picked it up in the mid-90s, when I was putting...

"The Silver Palate was born of two women's personal desperation." -- The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila ...