November 2022 Reading Roundup
It was an all-fiction month for me in November, involving a 17-year-old sex worker in the US, a novelist seeing her stolen manuscript come…
Borges Marathon, Part 11: The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
Only Borges could get away with writing a book review of a book that doesn't exist.
It’s Just a Few Bad Apples
Welcome to another of my occasional rants about the use and misuse of the English language. Previous entries have included people who…