Book review: Sketches by Boz
…the Miss Willises are a scream…
Book review: How to Read a Poem
by Edward Hirsch, luscious but lazy
Book review: Who Built America?
…including people who got their hands dirty
Boz indeed!
Dickens delivers, in a fastidiously literary way…
Book review: The Girl at the Lion d’Or
Sebastian Faulks is tenaciously literate, richly Gallic…
Book review: Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale
Full of her passion, not mine…
Book review: Clotel, or The President’s Daughter
by William Brown, America’s first black novelist
Book review: Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen, lush and memorable stories…
Book review: John Eliot: The Man Who Loved The Indians
Entertaining, convenient biography by Carleton Beals
Book review: Lord of the Flies
Never more relevant…