#whatireadovershabbat Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden I know a lot of people read The Secret Garden growing up. Not me. I...

#whatireadovershabbat J. W. von Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther (trans. Stanley Corngold) When it first appeared in 1774, The...

#whatireadovershabbat Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism (trans. Burton Raffel) Doesn’t everything work out for the best? That’s the...

הוֹי, מִי יָחוּשׁ עֲתִידוֹת, מִי זֶה יוֹדִיעֵנִי אִם לֹא הָאַחָרוֹן בִּמְשׁוֹרְרֵי צִיוֹן הִנֵּנִי, אִם לֹא גַּם אַתֶּם הַקּוֹרְאִים...

Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read , trans. Jeffrey Mehlman (Bloomsbury, 2007) In this charming book, Bayard shows there’s nothing more gauche than talking about a book you’ve read. You want to say what happened, share your favorite quotes, etc. But doing so risks setting the book in stone forever. It’s far better, Bayard argues, to talk about books you haven’t read! First of all, there are so many of them. Plus, anything might yet occur in them. A book y

#whatireadovershabbat Tom Dent's Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement In 1991, Tom Dent took a nine-month road trip to...