In order for Paul to have a dog, his father said that he must first “prove himself worthy,” but how could Paul prove himself worthy, when he didn’t even understand the concept? When a raging storm compromises the survival of a... Read More

Stuck in a rigid structured environment, unlike “Before Things Changed and Large Factories came,” Rosita and Sian search for a Great Work of Art to win a contest challenge and capture the prize of flying in a Great Sailplane. Written... Read More

Writing with clarity and simplicity, Burgett takes his readers into the battlefields with him and his closest companions during the entire division’s campaign to keep Bastogne, Belgium out of Nazi Germany’s hands. From the time the... Read More

In the recent words of artist Vito Acconci, “Architecture exists because nature is dangerous.” This book assumes a similar starting point for examining what constitutes and governs the sensation of pleasure derived from environments... Read More

In Sheridan’s conclusion to this very complimentary biography, he talks about how Gide’s work has never gone out of fashion in France—that most fashion-conscious of all countries. Sheridan attributes this to Gide’s “protean... Read More

Tchaikovsky Through Others’ Eyes is just that: a compilation of memoirs, diary entries and interviews by Tchaikovsky’s contemporaries ranging from close friends and family members to colleagues and total strangers. The accounts are... Read More

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. This classic sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is the apex... Read More

“I am a popular man,” Jacky Gore greets one in this deliciously humorous short novel, published in Britain in 1902 but only now in the United States, “and withal I am not vain.” Why, certainly not. It is hardly the fault of... Read More