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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Joseph McCabe: Fighter for Freethought (Reviewer’s Library No. 4) by Isaac Goldberg

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More marketing than biography In the early twentieth century, one of America’s most successful publishing enterprises was run out of th...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural by Theodore Dreiser

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Should have stuck to the real world Theodore Dreiser is best known for his novels, but he also wrote a dozen plays over the course ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

The Argonauts by Eliza Orzeszkowa

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Polish literature, though you’d hardly know it Eliza Orzeszkowa The Argonauts, a novel by Polish author Eliza Orzeszkowa, was firs...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe by Kató Lomb

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Not quite what the subtitle promises, but still educational During her lifetime, Kató Lomb (1909-2003) was one of the world’s most reno...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Tales of Space and Time by H. G. Wells

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Adventures in the past, present, and future Tales of Space and Time, published in 1899, is a collection of three short stories and two...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller

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Whirlwind tour through a millennium of scholarship The intellectual foundations of Western civilization were laid by the philosophers a...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Tales of Three Centuries by Michael Zagoskin

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Balzacian stories of feudal Russia Mikhail Zagoskin Tales of Three Centuries is a collection of three short stories by Russian a...