The human dramas in Carousel reward the voyeur’s eye. A Brussels neighborhood is the site of a grand experiment in human connection, in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s"The Carousel... Read More

From his beloved hillside retreat in Jamaica, superstar novelist Noel Coward and his manservant drink and smoke and grumble their way through delightful memories of glamorous... Read More

“Why it says to the world what the world wants to hear: that nothing goes better with depravity than vanity,” claims the narrator of "Persecution". Like the author’s... Read More

“The real problem is that we live in a society where the male is both the opponent and, at the same time, the referee.” So observes Safia, a smart and funny young Egyptian... Read More

For every great writer there need to be equally great readers. Jonathan Yardley may be just that, willing not only to read a work once, but also to re-read it seven or eight... Read More

Winner of the Zerilli-Marimò prize, "From the Land of the Moon" is a young woman’s lovely and poignant account of a family, and a grandmother’s search for love. Place is... Read More

“Literature like bloodletting, to avoid fever,” the author writes in "The Woman with the Bouquet". This collection of stories is for those who share this regard for... Read More

A secret diary, written on papyrus scrolls to a beloved deceased sister, re-imagines the life of Cecilia, a young Roman martyred for being a secret Christian. In Catholic... Read More