The Kabbalah & the Occult Tarot The mystical system called the Kabbalah is vast and elaborate, embracing the cosmos without and the cosmos within. To…
The US Census provides not only interesting demographic statistics. It is of historical importance in itself: the questions asked reflect the social concerns that loom…
My review of Ben Hopkins’ novel Cathedral is posted at Historical Novel Society. Cathedral takes place in, as the author says, “the fictional medieval Rhineland city…
Tokyo Ueno Station, by Yu Miri, translated from Japanese by Morgan GilesRiverhead Books, 192pp BUY: bookshop.org | indiebound | amazon US This book drew me…
All the little things you’ve always wondered about, about birds, is in David Allen Sibley’s What It’s Like to Be a Bird: What Birds Are…
A Wild Winter Swan, by Gregory Maguire, takes place at Christmas time, 1960s Manhattan. Here’s a little album of some of the places visited by…