Lectures on Shakespeare

Author	Ian McEwan
ISBN	1400076196

Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day...

Author	Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN	1568584636

Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have...

Author	Ian McEwan
ISBN	0679749845

This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here

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Amor Towles

Near the end of Amor Towles’s bestselling novel Rules of Civility, the fiercely independent Evelyn Ross boards a train from New York to Chicago to visit her parents, but never disembarks. Six months later, she appears in a photograph in a gossip magazine exiting the Tropicana Club in Los Angeles on...

Author	Ashley Montagu
ISBN	0925417416

I found the book interesting right up until Montagu started pontificating his theories on the importance of mother-love in early childhood development and how they practically define Joseph Merrick and his life choices. I mean, just look at how bitter Alexander Pope was! Surely the difference between...

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0198143958

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's overall interpretation, including...