Tuesday, October 25, 2011

V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain (2011)

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My original expectations for this book never materialized, but still there was much learned . From my cursory examination in the bookstore, ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Daniel Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory (2001)

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I started this blog, in small part, because I could not always recall when I read a book and what I got out of it. I thought about making no...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

William Shakespeare, King Lear (1607)

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The most powerful of human senses is vision. For this reason, it is perhaps not surprising that that some of the most powerful stories of th...
Monday, August 15, 2011

James Gleick, The Information (2011)

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If there is one book that touches so many of the posts in this blog, it is James Gleick 's The Information. Covering much of the territ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Manjit Kumar, Quantum (2008)

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A theme running through several of this year's posts is the role of human imagination in aesthetics, creating works of fiction, rewritin...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Jose Saramago, The Elephant's Journey (2008)

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A portion of the oeuvre of Jose Saramago revolves around themes of life and death. But even in the context of a novel like All The Names ,...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Jose Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)

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We write literary fiction that is often based on personal experience, and without hesitation we call it a work of fiction. We write literary...