Stump Speeches

It's an end-of-year tradition for me to comb back through my reading journal and see how many books I've read during the year.  I...

I wanted to send my BUILD students (see here for explanation of BUILD) home for the summer with a book called, The Pleasures of Reading i...

A few months ago I met the editor of Books & Culture (one of my favorite periodicals) at a meeting.  I told him that I've been a su...

I finished rereading Shusaku Endo's Silence last night (the first time I read it was in 2005). This strikes me as a very important nove...

When I travel through airports, I have a difficult time resisting some over-priced fiction at the book shops. On the way out to Portland, I ...