Cabbie Monaco

Who would've thought that those of us who've qualified for a bus pass would be exchanging tips about music with generation-z-ers. T...

I didn't have high expectations for Sarah Haywood's The Cactus . Goodreads places it in the Chick Lit category, and it's been ...

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 . ...