Disaster in Nova Scotia Canadian author Hugh MacLennan’s 1941 book Barometer Rising is a historical novel focusing on the Halifax Expl...

Family business in a Norwegian coastal town Alexander Kielland is regarded as one of “The Four Greats” of 19th-century Norwegian litera...

Good to have him back The Return of Sherlock Holmes, originally published in 1905, is the third collection of short stories by Sir Art...

Freethinker or not? German-American writer Paul Carus was a prolific author, editor, and publisher of books and journals on religion an...

An outstanding series, but not the best volume This is the ninth book I’ve read of The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, a ...

Family saga of the Jewish diaspora in China Though Pearl S. Buck wrote historical novels about a variety of peoples and places, she is ...

Financial chicanery and commercial skullduggery Upton Sinclair’s novel The Moneychangers, published in 1908, is loosely based on the r...