The Armchair Reader

This summer I became a big fan of the political website The Daily Beast. More recently they've revealed that their bookishness comes fro...

From the good folks over at Brooklyn Heights Blog , I have learned that Salman Rushdie will be giving an as yet undescribed lecture in Brook...

I've decided to list, with a brief explanation, my personal top 10 books of 2008. These are books that I read in 2008, but they could ha...

Happy New Year! Below is the list of books that I read in 2008. Not a bad list, and I'll go over it myself after a good nights sleep. I...

Some time ago I read a post on Alison Bechdel's blog where she referenced the Clive James poem 'The Book of my Enemy has Been Remai...

Salon has posted an excellent brief interview with Alaa Al Aswany explaining something of his craft, and his life as a writer in the Arab wo...

Michael Paterniti, the strange man who decided to drive across country with Einstein's brain, does a brief interview with the NYTimes B...