Category: On the Nightstand

“Being Dead” by Jim Crace is a weird book, “easier to respect than to love”, wrote Gary Krist in the original Salon review. Well, I can ...

Sebastian Haffner: Geschichte eines Deutschen Sebastian Haffners elegante Miniaturen über Nazi-Deutschland gehören zu den wenigen Büchern, deren Lektüre ich jed...

Fionavar Tapestry – Guy Gavriel Kay Die Empfehlung, die Byzanz-Romane von Guy Gavriel Kay zu lesen, habe ich aus dem Weblog des US-Ökonomen Brad de Long &...

Another book review for China, this time about William Boyd’s novel “Any Human Heart”

A short article on Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow I wrote for a chinese book review.

Just read my first Alice Munro story. Very impressed. The wonders of a quietly shifting focus, not following the story but somehow miraculously driving it, on a...

I’m reading Updike’s recent Krasner-Pollock-Novel “Seek My Face”, in very slow pace. Pick it up again now and then, with long intermissi...