The Black Sheep Dances

A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Hurricanes have the power to fascinate us, as do earthq...

originally published in "The Quivering Pen" 11/7/2012 with link http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/our-discarded-kodak-...

Translated from the Czech by Kaca Polackova I began reading The Guinea Pigs amused and entertained by the main character, Vasek, a family ...

Translated by Dirk and Ingrid Winterbach from the Afrikaans The Book of Happenstance begins with loss, as a linguistic specialist’s hom...

Travels in Russian History Rachel Polonsky is a British journalist who enjoys a dream trip to Russia to explore Moscow and the city, and ev...

Can't afford a trip?  Sick of your own town?   I've put together my favorite Aussie titles to get to know the region via fiction and...

A True Story of War, Love, and Survival Detachable reference bookmark. Three little words that mean a great deal in this non-fiction tex...

Don’t read the book reviews…. A strange way to start a book review, yes? In regards to this title, however, and all the buzz that has sur...

Ever since The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns,  and Three Cups of Tea , I’ve found Afghanistan to be a strangely compelling region. ...

When is multiculturalism a bad thing? Could the answer have anything to do with literature? The new book, New World of Indigenous Resistance...

Translated by Bill Johnston. Winner of the Vilenica International Literary Prize My final impression, closing this book, was that Andrzej S...

Pablo Neruda has some pretty big achievements:  Chile's ambassador to France, a Nobel Prize for Literature, and this particular title re...

Can hate be hereditary? Does our DNA include code for revenge? Reading The Man from Beijing is likely to make you ponder these very questio...