The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

10/27/2011

Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing …

Red Brocade: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

10/23/2011

A friend gave me Naomi Shihab Nye‘s wonderful 19 Varieties of Gazelle a month or so ago. I regularly use …

10/14/2011

David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is simultaneously a story of horror and shame, and an amazing feat of language and …

10/6/2011

I’ve been laid up for a few days, and weeks to come, with a fractured collarbone and two fractured ribs, …