I know that Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize, but I’ve never read, don’t know much about her, and don’t really have much to say. I was prepared for Haruki Murukami because, well, I’ve read several of his novels. Anyway…

A fraction of a Jewish sect’s library now a game of Russian-American political ping pong.

Screw the global novel – long live the region-specific political novel!

Books are not and should not be free.