A More Perfect Heaven
I had planned to begin my year of reading science books by women with Natalie Angier’s The Canon but it …
Category Archives: Memoir/Biography
The Lives of Margaret Fuller, Part Two
Previously in the Lives of Margaret Fuller, smart girl, no friends, becomes an admirer of Goethe, nearly dies of typhoid, …
The Lives of Margaret Fuller, Part One
Several years ago when I had my Emerson project and read through all of his essays and then read a …
Feynman
In the mood for science? Biography? A graphic novel? Then you may want to read Feynman written by Jim Ottaviani …
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
When offered a review copy of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch I couldn’t say no. I figured …
Fun Home
Because of Nick Hornby’s gushing and the infuriating anti-graphic novel discussion from my classmates a couple weeks ago, I got …
The Enormous Room
On a whim after finishing May Sarton’s The Small Room, I decided to read e. e. cummings’s The Enormous Room …
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
I’ve been working my way through Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton since the end of December 2009 and finally I have …
Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf
I’ve been plugging away at Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton since the end of December of 2009. I read a big …
The Possessed
I’ve been reading The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman on my …
