Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris I’ve been reading baseball novels, lately. I picked up Philip Roth’s The Great… Read more Bang the Drum Slowly

The Southpaw by Mark Harris I really enjoyed the close of the baseball season this year. The Dodgers finished the… Read more The Southpaw

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City by Carla L. Peterson Jim and I… Read more Black Gotham

The Golden Bowl by Henry James It’s taken me a very long time to read this very long book. I… Read more The Golden Bowl

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men, Scott Allan, Gloria Groom, Paul Perrin, editors This is the exhibition catalog for the show Jim… Read more Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Jim and I are in Mexico supporting his mother as she recovers from surgery in… Read more Ethan Frome

The Great American Novel by Philip Roth. I’ve read quite a lot off Roth over the years. Besides American Pastoral,… Read more The Great American Novel

Herzog by Saul Bellow I’ve been reading Saul Bellow lately ever since I happened across a copy of Henderson the… Read more Herzog

Jim and I just returned from Santa Fe where we attended the opera. We saw three great operas in great… Read more The Turn of the Screw