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Les Mots, by Jean-Paul Sartre 1963, 210 pp. The Age of Reason, by Jean-Paul Sartre 1945, 300 pp. The Reprieve, by Jean-Paul Sartre 1945, 377...

Here it is in the rough; The dichotomy seems to be between, in my estimation a false one, a priori notions or levels of productivity. A pr...

Hermit In Paris, by Italo Calvino 2003, 255 pp. One need read only a few books by the great man to realize that while he may have been a her...

To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson 1940, 509 pp. When life has become particularly difficult, when you flounder amid indecision and un...

Black & Blue, by Ian Rankin 1996, 498 pp. Although “tartan noir” is a genuine, codified genre in its own right, this book may perhaps be...

Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens 1857, 820 pp. I have avoided Charles Dickens for almost a quarter-century. I have never experienced any o...

I began the Avanti Book Review a year ago with the stated intention of reviewing every book I read. This I did without fail for 10 months, ...