Magnificent Octopus

I like Murakami. I like that his books have libraries and music and cats, and people reading and listening and caring about cats. I love tha...

Spotted, waiting on the metro platform: young woman, maybe 20 years old, but I doubt it, reading First Love , by Ivan Turgenev (in French). ...

A week on, almost two, I don't know where to start in discussing this book: Fathers and Sons , by Ivan Turgenev. And I came this close t...

So I finished that little Turgenev novel (more on this on the morrow), and then I finished off that little work of juvenile fiction I'd...

Russians! In winter! Makes for excellent reading! "No," she decided at last. "God alone knows what it might have led to; this...