The Book That Changed My Life: The Turn of the Screw
When I was a brand-new college student, one of my teachers told me I might like Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw based … Read more
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner Part adventure, part love, and all true. This is not only a story about the growing romantic love … Read more
The Book That Changed My Life: A Geography of Subsaharan Africa
In 1964, while a graduate student at Florida State University, I bought a copy of A Geography of Subsaharan Africa, by Harm J. … Read more
A Reader’s Story: Catcher in the Rye
In August of 1988 I was flying home after a summer studying in Italy. I was working through a mild bout of aerophobia … Read more
Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
Alexander Weinstein’s impressive andstunning short story collection Children ofthe New World: Stories is not just sci-fidystopian stories of the future, but morelike … Read more
A Chance Encounter
On our return from our cottage in New Hampshire this past summer, we stopped at a motelin Binghamton, N.Y. for the night. … Read more
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
It was 100 years ago that an extraordinary storyof survival took place. Ernest Shackleton led anexpedition in an attempt to be the … Read more
Wahr’s Bookstore: Ann Arbor’s Longest Lasting Bookshop
By Gene Alloway, owner of Motte & Bailey Booksellers The busy years of the seventies saw a renaissance in bookshops in Ann … Read more
