Red and blackRed-Color News Soldier is a book of text and photographs by Li Zhensheng, who between 1966 and 1980, throughout Mao's Cultural...
Forward into the pastYesterday at a used bookstore in New York, I got a Sixties paperback of Letters from the Earth, a collection of Mark Twain pieces that he...
For the curiousThinking three things about Robinson Crusoe today: 1. I had a children's version of this from Scholastic Book Club, a severe condensation...
HarrietYesterday I realized a minor ambition of a few years' standing and read Harriet the Spy. I discovered I love this book and I love this...
Missing timeThe third installment in my pre-Halloween series: Robert M. Coates, parallel reality, and the ghost story without ghosts.