You with your ‘rope in the ring,’ your ‘obelisk in the Coliseum,’ your ‘leek in the garden,’ your ‘key in the lock,’ your ‘bolt in the door,’ your ‘pestle... Read More

Janet Frame preferred her solitude to mingling with the literati, but by the time she died in 2004 she had long since secured her reputation as an author of import. Frame was... Read More

Books—at least good ones—are time capsules. Their plotted past is an invented universe that will travel into the future, to be lodged in future readers’ imaginations as... Read More

In 1971 the author and her husband, Guy (who have together written five books and innumerable articles on wilderness preservation, mountain climbing, and the outdoor life) gave... Read More

This author takes aim at everyone—the Bush administration, the everyday Americans who elected him, the corporate honchos, the media establishment, and academics. He puts... Read More

“Threads of Time” and “Recollections” are surely too modest a title and subtitle for this remarkable memoir. Part quest, part odyssey, part spiritual self-exploration,... Read More