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Book Review: Brisingr (Book Three Of The Inheritance Cycle) By Christopher Paolini
If you weren't emotionally involved with the story before, there's no way you can avoid it now.
Read More »Interview With Indu Sundaresan, Author Of The Convent of Little Flowers
"We’ve heard these stories, and assume that they always happen to other people..."
Read More »Book Review: The Judging Eye (Book One Of The Aspect Emperor) R. Scott Bakker
This is fantasy literature like you've never read before.
Read More »Book Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
An imagined history of a real book comes to life in this beautifully written historical novel.
Read More »DVD Review: Brideshead Revisited (2008)
A remarkable achievement and a wonderful film.
Read More »Book Review: Karnak Café by Naguib Mahfouz
With a novella, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz takes readers inside Egyptian culture and politics in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Read More »Book Review: Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe)
Works of mystery and imagination that not only do justice to the author they celebrate, but are fine stories in their own right.
Read More »Book Review: The Enchantress Of Florence by Salman Rushdie
A historical fantasy that's both a pleasure to read and an education in its recreation of two of history's most fascinating cities.
Read More »My Favourite Reads Of 2008
A simple test: which books would I be most inclined to re-read?
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