Reading Freely

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China © 1991 Chang Jung 525 pages (My edition uses Chang's family name first, following the Chines...

Two years have passed since I declared I was taking the Classics Club challenge, and posted my own list of fifty classics to read.  I...

Although I do not consume The News -- that is, the constantly changing, buzzing noise of whatever it is people are excited about for the pre...

Late last week I finished China Wakes , the account of two  married American journalists in China during the 1980s and early 1990s.  Th...

A Burglar's Guide to the City © 2016 Geoff Manaugh 304 pages There's really no resisting a title like that, is there?  Mind,...

My Life with the Saints © 2007 James Martin, SJ 414 pages The church I grew up in consistently referred to Rome as the whore of Baby...

Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape © 1999, 2014 Brian Hayes 544 pages Here at last is a book for those of us ...