In October 2006 Norwegian author Bj&248;rn Dimmen began writing about his life. He wanted his three children Alexander Andrea and Vanessa to know “who their father really is” and his friends and family to “understand why [he]... Read More

To a modern polyglot who’s into traveling and culture-gawking and fond of language games, poetry in translation can be inspiring, infuriating, boring, or tedious. In this version of a pair of companion volumes growing out of a serious... Read More

To a modern polyglot who’s into traveling and culture-gawking and fond of language games, poetry in translation can be inspiring, infuriating, boring, or tedious. In this version of a pair of companion volumes growing out of a serious... Read More

A gay dad plunges into the world of blind dates hoping to find that one perfect person who will change his life. But the perfect man proves harder to find than Peter Bauman and his supportive family expect and his search uncovers a... Read More

It may seem far-fetched that by the end of this century a satellite will be furnishing a cheap continuous and inexhaustible supply of electric power to ten billion earthlings. But after reading Ed Bair’s analysis of the current and... Read More

“I always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action,” asserts Zinn, a controversial historian. Zinn’s fifteen books, and his involvement in social movements, which has earned... Read More

To pigeonhole this book as a “baseball memoir” is equivalent to calling Izaak Walton’s The Complete Angler a tract on fishing. Both books far exceed the subject matter indicated by their titles, though clearly the national... Read More

“The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamondÃ’but I say, Ódiamond, what! This is carbon.’ And my diamond might be coal or soot, and my theme is carbon.“ Latticed in the writings of D.H. Lawrence are numerous... Read More