The Frugal Chariot

A Separate Peace  by John Knowle s “What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever w...

Evil:  A challenge to philosophy and theology   by Paul Ricœur This is a small but positively brilliant exegesis of the origin of evil. Ric...

The Shape of the Artistic Mind:   A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas  by Bradley T. ...

The Wall  by Marlen Haushofer “ I often look forward to a time when there won't be anything left to grow attached to. I'm tired of ...

Sula  by Toni Morrison “Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and ...

Joseph and His Brothers   by Thomas Mann "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?" With this beginni...

The Hungry Tide   by Amitav Ghosh Words are like the winds that blow ripples on the water's surface . . ."  -  The Hungry Tide, p. ...

                                                 Sea of Poppies            by Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh is a story-teller of the highest or...

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age   by Hubert L. Dreyfus Wonder is the feeling of a philosop...

The Old Man and the Sea   by Ernest Hemingway “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck...

Burial Rites  by Hannah Kent “It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening ...

This Boy's Life  by Tobias Wolff “Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.” ― Tobias Wolff, This Boy...

Hombrecito   by Santiago José Sánchez “He kisses her again, with more conviction this time, the way she kisses his cuts and bruises, as if l...

Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Res t  by William Easterly "The quest for agency is everywhere and nowhere in the busin...

The Roving Shadows  by  Pascal Quignard "We were constructed in the shadows. Passively in the shadows." - Pascal Quignard The book...

Time Shelter   by Georgi Gospodinov Time Shelter introduces Gospodinov to American readers as a key figure in international literature. Geo...

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop “Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created.” ― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black...

Ludwig's Room  by Alois Hotschnig "What we've become is horrifying and what we will become is disastrous. We're destroyed...

Goethe Dies  by Thomas Bernhard "I went inside myself, so to speak, and not outside myself anymore." - Thomas Bernhard Thomas Be...

Under the Net  by Iris Murdoch “I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotio...

If You Kept a Record of Sins   by Andrea Bajani "I think it happened to you, too, the first time you arrived." - Andrea Bajani Th...

The Fate of the Earth & The Abolition  by Jonathan Schell “It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal ev...