By Susan Fox Rogers, ed. Once, on a canoe trip that turned out to be more vigorous than some of the trippers were prepared for, when we finally got to

By Brian Fawcett Brian Fawcett co-taught some required course or other that I took in grad school. There was a lot of reading — maybe two books a week —

By Gregory Maguire After some reflection, I’m not sold on Maguire’s stuff (Wicked is his biggest success). I don’t mind some darkness in my fairy tales, but do they have

I’m crazy tired and not up to books with actual words and plots and characters and things, so today I think I’ll stick to pretty pictures. This is a great

By Margaret Atwood Short stories — very short, most are only a few pages. Many touch on themes of gender. Some of the best ones showcase Atwood’s needly humour, ranging

By Adam Gopnik Gopnik writes about his five years living in Paris. Somehow he managed to write about it without making me hate him. ..Mostly.

By Stephen Gould Fascinating stuff here. Stephen Gould is more often known for his natural history books aimed at casual readers (Bully for Brontosaurus and the like) — but this

By Atul Gawande Gawande succeeds at conveying the art that is medicine (that is much of science, really), the combination of knowledge, past experience and plain old gut feeling that

by Pete McCarthy McCarthy’s Eighth Rule of Travel is that you should never pass a bar with your name on it. So for that among other more complex reasons, off

By Guy Gavriel Kay Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing gets a little purple in spots and the drama can tend to melodrama. He’s good at both character and storyline creation, though,

By Neil Stephenson Who can resist a book starring a character named Hiro Protagonist? I’m normally kind of meh on Neal Stephenson. Some of his other books, while they have