Loving Alfred and Guinevere  and Skylark  makes me think... are there little-known NYRB Classics that you would especially recommend? I fi...

There is something rather wonderful about choosing and reading a book while knowing very little about it. I knew nothing at all about James ...

I can't quite believe it, but Shiny New Books is a whole year old. Issue 5 is published today  - which is, exactly to the day, one year ...

He is risen indeed! Alleluia! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend - and a Bank Holiday weekend if you happen to be in one of t...

I wrote a while ago about my love of A.A. Milne , and how he had been the perfect author to set me off on a love of book hunting - being ver...

My housemate Melissa (not to be confused with a different housemate Melissa, who has also written the odd book review for SIAB) wanted to b...

For one of my Christmas presents, my brother made a very impressive sacrifice - by buying me a book about an author he is, ahem, not ...