Cabbie Monaco

An acquaintance suggested James C. Scott's Against the Grain might be of interest. We'd been discussing the benefits of small, loc...

Brown Girl, Brownstones is Paule Marshall's debut novel, published in 1959. It's the coming-of-age story of Selina Boyce, who whe...

I was heading for Bath and read that Jane Austen's posthumously published Persuasion is set there. Ideal reading for my visit, I thou...

Who would want to be a teenager again? Not me. Nor, I imagine, the fictional narrator of Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults . T...

Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for The Promise , but at book club we decided first to read his 2003 shortlisted The Good Doctor . ...

There are lots of businesses hoping to gain a foothold in Monaco, but making contacts can be difficult. Bradley Mitton's Club Vivanova i...

On a warm day at the end of March, LA private detective Philip Marlowe is idly looking at a neon sign for " a dime and dice emporium c...