Subtitled 'An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, this 1997 memoir by the award-winning sports columnist Mitch Albom is based on a series of Tuesday visits he made to his former sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz [ ... ]
Another really interesting pick by Book Cellar. The authors – software engineer and writer Kevin Simler and economics professor Robin Hanson – start from the premise that we are often unaware of the real reasons for our behaviours: they go [ ... ]
Vladimir Sorokin's 1983 has been described as "a bizarrely funny saga of a quintessential Russian institution, the interminably long line". Perhaps you might go for "avant-garde" rather than bizarre; the book is solely snatches of dialogue, the voices of people [ ... ]
Discuss the top seven poems (from a list of 50) that have received the most votes by members. As with any such list, it's highly debatable – way too many US poets, way too few from MENASA (including the UAE, [ ... ]
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