I have heard a lot about how good James McBride is, but this is first book I have read of McBride’s. It is a very well researched historical fiction. It’s […]

In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson issued a series of proclamations restricting or voiding the rights of German-Americans after the United States declared war on Germany. The government seized over 500 […]

Annie Jacobsen’s book uses declassified documents and accounts from pertinent ex officials to describe a scenario involving nuclear war, step by step, beginning with the launch of a single weapon […]

Hello, we would like to have occasional informal events that provide opportunities to discuss and gush or jeer and listen about books. This is usually called a book club. But…we […]

Ulysses was published in 1922, but banned in the United States for over ten years for being obscene. My Modern Library edition includes the text of Judge John M. Woosley’s […]

How do you choose friends? Common interests? Shared values? Compatible temperaments? Now, how about characters for a story? The opposite? If you are going to throw people in a can […]

Our new store is open at 915 Vine Street in central Cincinnati. The location was once a luggage repair shop and later French Crust (YUM), which moved to Elm street. […]

I picked up a copy of Hamlet at a bookstore in Milford called the Bookmatters. Here’s my review: it’s good and funny and you should read it not just for […]

Matthew Desmond asks a difficult question in his latest book, Poverty, By America. Why does a country with so much wealth have so much poverty? But his answer is much […]