Reading and Writing

"The literary bio is an oddly enduring genre. People who read have always been interested in the story behind the stories, but you’d th...

I suspect that many writers would jump at the call for jury duty. I should too, after all how often does one get a chance to observe so clos...

"Subtleties, allegories, humorous fancies, the wildest generalizations abound, but nothing simple and clear, nothing going straight to ...

I stumbled upon this obscure book, a collection of articles from the 1960s, by a Polish journalist Krystyna Kolińska. In 1966 she went to Le...

Colonel Russell Williams, commander of one of Canada's largest military bases stands accused of multiple murders and sexual assaults. P...

Reading Resurrection. This is Leo Tolstoy's last great novel. In the author's lifetime it was more popular than Anna Karenina or War...