A walk in the deep past

I read and read and read, and become pickier and pickier and pickier in the books I deem worthy of my attention. My Christmas book list has had too many misses the last couple of years, with too many books not living up to their reviews. But one on my 2015 list lived...

The Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante

I am a reader and have been from the beginning of my literate life at 4 years old. Which means I have read an awful lot of books, literature of the English-speaking world with great literature—many by dead, white males—featuring prominently. Postmodernism leaves me...