Ian McEwan's 2010 novel "Solar" is a misanthropic retelling of ten years in the life of erstwhile Nobel Prize recipient…
Each chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk" begins with an excerpt of verse and a few…
Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" tells of her life in and escape from the 'Demon…
Booker T. Washington's "Up From Slavery" promotes a vocational training for blacks imbued with Christian virtue. Is W.E.B. Du Bois'…
The circumstances of my purchase and knowledge of "Up From Slavery," Booker T. Washington's most famous autobiography
A glorious night when I just wanted to keep reading: first, 25 pages of Lukas Rieppel's "Assembling the Dinosaur"; then…
In Anna Seghers' novel "Transit," no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who…
The "Bestiary" narrates pre-adolescent Isabel's summer vacation with her cousin Nino and ... a tiger.
Brothers Geronimo and Carlo travel the roads of 19th century Italy, entertaining passers-by with song, but one plants a seed…
Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" considers the ethical effects of the consulation with a paraself, a self…