An Artist of the Floating World — Kazuo Ishiguro and War Guilt

9/13/2018

“The Floating World” (ukiyo) as a Japanese expression has traditionally referred to evening pleasure activities, for men, during a …

A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones

11/9/2015

A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector …

4/20/2015

If you’ve never read anything about life in the trenches during World War One, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and …