I cannot think of another book that I read as a young man in the late 1960s, that was more influential on my subsequent life choices than Siddhartha by Herman
I’m in A New York State of Mind
Approaching 5,000 deaths in New York, due to the COVID 19 Virus, got me thinking of Billy Joel’s classic song in a whole new way – Although I grew up
Where’s Judy? A First Look at the New Book by James L. Evans
Written by James L. Evans, Author & Retired Psychiatrist
Sherwood Anderson Faces the Grotesque in Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Written by Dr. James Evans, Retired Psychiatrist and Author*
Don Quixote is a Fiction of His Own Making
Written by Eric Holzwarth* We can easily imagine the shaded hues that sketched the landscape in the pre-dawn hours when Don Quixote first rode forth, newly christened, determined to revive
Confinement and the Social Stratification of Women in Jane Eyre*
Many of us now voluntarily sequestered or under forced confinement due to the worldwide Corona Virus, Thus, it may be a good time to read some books that help us
Dancing to the Tune of The Universe: The Power of Mythology
I have been trying to figure out why people have such a hard time understanding the meaning of Mythology, and even have a more difficult time studying this topic objectively.
Poe’s Roll of the Dice Comes Up Short in “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (Part II of II)
In Poe’s first serialized version of “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” his fictional tale of the real-life Mary Rogers murder, a female body was discovered in the Seine River about
Poe’s Mystery of Marie Roget: Fictional Murder Mystery or Real-Life Journalism? (I fo II)
In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), the police assume that the murders have been committed by some persons associated with the victim. Dupin discards this unproven assumption and
How the Tortoise Shell Got Cracked – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Murray leads The Classic Book Club in Midlothian, Virginia, where we recently discussed this book* The novel takes its title from a verse in the poem “The Second Coming”