When I last wrote here, I was partway through Teju Cole’s Open City, remarking on how much Cole’s writing reminds me of W.G. Sebald’s and discovering (with some embarrassment) that I was far from the…
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After years of not using the public library, relying instead on the academic libraries of my grad schools and then of the university I taught at, I finally renewed my membership at the library in…
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I can’t tell you how much I’m regretting some of the promises I made around here. Neck deep in packing and everything else that goes with moving, I’m more inclined to read murder mysteries* than…
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Thanks again to Georgia for a post that has whetted my appetite for reading Elana Ferrante’s backlist. I’ve got Ferrante’s Neapolitan books piled up by my desktop computer waiting for me to be home long…
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An article on the Sassi di Matera (the stone homes/cave dwellings in Puglia, Italy) in this weekend’s Globe and Mail Travel section reminded me that I’d just learned about these remarkable buildings and the culture…
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