Magnificent Octopus

Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale is big, really big, with a big heart, and a big vocabulary. It starts off as an adventure — gangs of c...

New York had always been a city destined for the rule of dandies, thieves, and men who resembled hardboiled eggs. Those who made its politic...

Hugh Close, The Sun 's rewrite editor, had the boundless energy of a hound, and was always perched upright, like a Labrador waiting for ...

Claire has tagged me with seven bookish questions. (See other answers by Mee , BIP , Nicola , ds , Vasilly , and Lu .) 1. What propelled ...

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, h...

They walked along the line of machinery until they were discovered by a workman who was emerging from one of the long passages inside. He sa...

His eyes were like razors and white diamonds. They were impossibly pale, lucid, and silver. People said, "When Pearly Soames opens his ...