Natalia Ginzburg's "The Mother" is a story about a "mother" from the perspective of her two boys who receive from…
Hoffmann's "Don Juan" is a theatre review written as a short story, bound to enlighten lovers of Don Giovanni and…
In Johann Peter Hebel's "An Unexpected Reunion" death seems to separate a betrothed couple, but after the passing of much…
Goethe's "The Attorney" shows that though habit and nature are not easily conquered, the powers of the sovereign will as…
Writing explores writing in Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," in a story constructed of two…
During this lovely autumn month I will read a new short story each day and then write a brief post…
George Saunders' short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was born in a minimum security prison in central Pennysylvania
Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading…
A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine
Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a…