1. Trudging There are a lot of shocking things about Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones, a novel about the destruction of the European...

How was the crowd at the Sermon on the Mount? When the son of God did stand-up for the multitudes, were there hecklers? The Bible, in its...

“Being Human is aspiring to be human. Since it is not aspiring to be the only human, it is an aspiration on the parts of others as well....

To Carthage then I came Burning burning burning burning O Lord thou pluckest me out O Lord thou pluckest burning -T.S. Eliot, The Fire...

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN is a poet of the underground. In his novel, "Whores for Gloria," a slim volume that most resembles his collection...

With its playful language and goofy big-city surrealism, this wonderfully peculiar novel has more than a little in common with Francesca...

If you think that the best response to religious extremism is to laugh at it, then James Hogg's most famous work, published in 1824,...

ALBERT EINSTEIN, in one of the many remarks that have endeared him to writers seeking epigrams, said that what really interested him was...

An intricate and very bookish mystery novel--set, in fact, in the rarefied world of book collecting and dealing--from the sophisticated...