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For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two...

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a...

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art,...

In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply...

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and...

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language...

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be...

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from...

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian...

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin...

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late...

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go...

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for...

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big...

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