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An unexpectedly long and unavoidable absence from posting is now colliding with the start of an expected absence. I plan to return...

  “…a born poet madly in love with simple things like adventure, friendship, rebellion, flesh and blood.” – Victor Serge, Memoirs of...

A recent obituary for Antonio Tabucchi noted that, in addition to being a writer of fiction, a political activist, and an academic...

If one can say that a life can be transformed by reading a writer’s work, the contemporary Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi (who died this Ma...

To open Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet is get a glimpse of still, twilit infinity. This surprisingly rich, dense, lyrical w...

Over the past few days, a few literary bloggers (you know who you are) have been discussing what constitutes a “cl...

I knew right away that The Peregrine , J. A. Baker’s slim 1967 book about peregrine hawks, would be unlike any naturalist’s book I’d...

I’ve been cordially invited to join The Savage Detectives reading challenge .  I accepted of course, albeit with slight reluctance...